What is Architectural History

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What is Architectural History? ...

What is History? series John H. Arnold, What is Medieval History? Peter Burke, What is Cultural History? John C. Burnham, What i ...

What is Architectural History? ANDREW LEACH polity ...

Copyright © Andrew Leach 2010 The right of Andrew Leach to be identifi ed as Author of this Work has been asserted in accordance ...

Contents List of illustrations vii Acknowledgements x ...

Introduction How to use this book xii Foundations of a modern discipline Architectural history as the architect’s patrimony ...

List of illustrations 1 Il Gesù. Courtesy of Wikipedia Commons. 2 2 Florentia, rendering intended to illustrate Ptolemy’s Geogra ...

viii List of illustrations 7 Mies and America? Jacqueline Kennedy chatting with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 12 April 1964, Hyannis ...

List of illustrations ix 15 Interior of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, by Frank Lloyd Wright, opened 1959. Courtesy ...

Acknowledgements I wish to thank Andrea Drugan of Polity for the encourage- ment and forbearance that saw this book get off the ...

Acknowledgements xi research fellow as I put the fi nal edits to bed. All of these debts notwithstanding, unless I indicate othe ...

How to use this book This book is written as an introduction to the conceptual questions faced by those who write architectural ...

Introduction In the preface to Renaissance und Barock (1888), one of the founding modern histories of architecture, the young Sw ...

2 What is Architectural History? In setting out the terms for the academic study of architec- tural history, Wölffl in inscribed ...

Introduction 3 This book is concerned with the form of architectural histo- riography that emerged in the mode of a discipline a ...

4 What is Architectural History? community with a college complex or campus. Archaeolo- gists and historians of other specializa ...

Introduction 5 examples through which to consider the intellectual limits and problems that affect the work of architectural his ...

6 What is Architectural History? concerned with important disciplinary geographies: France, Great Britain, Germany, Austria and ...