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What is Architectural History?

ISBN: 978-0-7456-4457-8
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196 pages
July 2010, Polity
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List of illustrations vii

Acknowledgements x

How to use this book xii

Introduction 1

1 Foundations of a modern discipline 9

Architectural history as the architect’s patrimony 13

The architect as artist 19

Architecture and empirical knowledge 25

Architecture and culture 31

A modern discipline? 36

2 Organizing the past 41

Approach 43

Style and period 44

Biography 52

Geography and culture 57

Type 61

Technique 66

Theme and analogy 71

3 Evidence 76

4 How useful? 97

5 History and theory 115

Notes 134

Further reading 156

Index of names 164

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