What is Architectural History?ISBN: 978-0-7456-4456-1
Hardcover
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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