64 What is Architectural History?
us cause to consider the architect’s expanded remit of the last
two centuries.^42 Pevsner lists a series of architectural histories
of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that include
‘surveys of types which traditionally formed part of the archi-
tectural courses’, and a number of more recent studies to
complement his own attempt to provide a fi rst history of
9 Evolution of the temple type, Plate 1 of Les ruines des plus
beaux monuments de la Grèce, considérées du côté de l’histoire et
du côté de l’architecture, by Julien-David Le Roy, plate by Micheli-
not, after Le Moine.