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What is architectural history? /

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: What is history? seriesPublisher: Cambridge, England : Polity Press, 2010Description: xi, 167 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780745644578
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.9 LEW 23
Contents:
Abstract: What is Architectural History? considers the questions and problems posed by architectural historians since the discipline's emergence in the late nineteenth century. How do historians of architecture organize past time and relate it to the present? How does historical evidence translate into historical narrative? Should architectural history be useful for practicing architects? If so, how? Leach treats the disciplinarity of architectural history as an open question, moving between three key claims upon historical knowledge of architecture: within art history, as a historical specialization and, most prominently, within architecture. He suggests that the confusions around the question posed in his title have been productive, ensuring a rich variety of approaches to the project of exploring architecture historically.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Foundations of a modern discipline -- Organizing the past -- Evidence -- How useful? -- History and theory.

What is Architectural History? considers the questions and problems posed by architectural historians since the discipline's emergence in the late nineteenth century. How do historians of architecture organize past time and relate it to the present? How does historical evidence translate into historical narrative? Should architectural history be useful for practicing architects? If so, how? Leach treats the disciplinarity of architectural history as an open question, moving between three key claims upon historical knowledge of architecture: within art history, as a historical specialization and, most prominently, within architecture. He suggests that the confusions around the question posed in his title have been productive, ensuring a rich variety of approaches to the project of exploring architecture historically.

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