What is Architectural History

Evidence 87 ing as either late medieval or early Renaissance. Before the middle of the nineteenth century, buildings of the fi f ...

88 What is Architectural History? lished from 1748), and when and how did he revise them over time? In her contribution to The S ...

Evidence 89 Brunelleschi and Piranesi: these are doubtless fi gures of the contemporary canon of architectural history, as much ...

90 What is Architectural History? 14 Adelaide, South Australia, drawn by Le Corbusier with Hugh Trumble, Bogotá, Colombia, 1950. ...

Evidence 91 traces of its conception and implementation and all the competing forces necessarily in play. To what, Moulis asks, ...

92 What is Architectural History? might have occurred in between. These intermediate phases between one moment of relative analy ...

Evidence 93 Consider, too, how documentation of the organization, disposition and construction of the town of Thérouanne, in the ...

94 What is Architectural History? kind of history and another were clearer. The questions asked of a building by an economic his ...

Evidence 95 the promises of globalization invade the once relatively ‘car- tesian’ spaces.^18 Engaging with these historiographi ...

96 What is Architectural History? drawing the architectural historian’s perspective into these historical issues can render buil ...

4 How useful? The past has long offered the architect a series of models, provocations and inspirations, which have to a varying ...

98 What is Architectural History? in the past in his book Teorie e storia dell’architettura (1968).^2 From the eighteenth centur ...

How useful? 99 Contemporary history and past history Who reads architectural history? And why? In his 1912– 13 essay ‘History an ...

100 What is Architectural History? human spirit. Even recent history deemed to have little rel- evance to the present moment in ...

How useful? 101 These specifi c cases are debatable, of course, but they serve to make a blunt point: when architectural history ...

102 What is Architectural History? problem. Its readers will assess its importance for scholarship on the basis of its discoveri ...

How useful? 103 the past’, and often in the mode that Croce dismissed as ‘dead history’. Aspects of that work can become a sourc ...

104 What is Architectural History? erudite history is true history’s extrinsic course – extending the usefulness of Croce’s term ...

How useful? 105 conversely, seem less so. As we will briefl y see below, this has over the last half-century been a subject of i ...

106 What is Architectural History? appeared in the latter’s journal L’Architettura (September 1957), Millon grappled with Zevi’s ...