What is Architectural History

Organizing the past 47 Style is the pattern in the carpet – the unambiguous indica- tion, to the informed collector, of place an ...

48 What is Architectural History? century thinking in the natural sciences. It relies on a capacity for a rigorous taxonomy that ...

Organizing the past 49 visual trigger for the historian, it would these days be treated with a healthy dollop of scepticism, and ...

50 What is Architectural History? of the last two centuries. To what extent is the building at hand exemplary of Federation Styl ...

Organizing the past 51 of Rome and the religious wars heralded another fundamen- tal shift in the bases of society and culture. ...

52 What is Architectural History? open a door on the question of the extent to which architec- ture’s internal artistic forces b ...

Organizing the past 53 like emperors, popes and presidents. Architectural histories that plot the origins, intentions, infl uenc ...

54 What is Architectural History? historical treatment of biographical subjects will be informed by the historiographical trends ...

Organizing the past 55 Two major exhibitions on Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969) were staged concurrently in New York in 200 ...

56 What is Architectural History? Biographical architectural history raises a number of spe- cifi c conceptual issues. The reaso ...

Organizing the past 57 Other architectural histories openly seek to strike a balance between intrinsic and external forces actin ...

58 What is Architectural History? under British rule.^31 So too for South Africa, Indonesia and New York in relation to Dutch co ...

Organizing the past 59 thus speak to (for instance) the history of ecclesiastical archi- tecture in Europe. Published almost twe ...

60 What is Architectural History? headings from these territories, which are then further divided up to three times: into ‘Archi ...

Organizing the past 61 Or the architecture of a distinct state, kingdom or region as manifestations of broader transnational or ...

62 What is Architectural History? the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to regard arch itecture as analogous with any number o ...

Organizing the past 63 types can also relate to their use, such as the examples intro- duced above, where the type can be follow ...

64 What is Architectural History? us cause to consider the architect’s expanded remit of the last two centuries.^42 Pevsner list ...

Organizing the past 65 building types written as such.^43 Carroll Meeks’s The Rail- road Station (1956) is notable among his exa ...

66 What is Architectural History? typological, yet in her article on McIntosh’s banks she uses the tools of a typological divisi ...