What is architectural history?

by Leach, Andrew

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"How do historians of architecture organize past time and relate it to the present? How does historical evidence translate into historical narrative? Should architectural history be useful for practising architects? If so, how? Leach treats the disciplinarity of architectural history as an open question, moving between three key claims upon historical knowledge of architecture: within art history, as a historical specialization and, most prominently, within architecture."--Back cover.

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Title Statements

  • Full title :What is architectural history? / Andrew Leach.

Summary

"How do historians of architecture organize past time and relate it to the present? How does historical evidence translate into historical narrative? Should architectural history be useful for practising architects? If so, how? Leach treats the disciplinarity of architectural history as an open question, moving between three key claims upon historical knowledge of architecture: within art history, as a historical specialization and, most prominently, within architecture."--Back cover.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2010.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Polity
  • Place of Publication:Cambridge, UK
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2010.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xi, 167 pages : : illustrations)

Edition Identifiers

  • oclc:on1349300134
  • LC Classification:NA190
  • Dewey Decimal:720.9

Table of Contents

Introduction -- Foundations of a modern discipline -- Organizing the past -- Evidence -- How useful? -- History and theory.

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Subjects

Architecture -- Historiography

Writers

Leach, Andrew

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