| Description |
xi, 167 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
What is history? series |
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What is history?
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| Contents |
List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- How to use this book -- Introduction -- 1. Foundations of a modern discipline -- Architectural history as the architect's patrimony -- The architect as artist -- Architecture and empirical knowledge -- Architecture and culture -- A modern discipline? -- 2. Organizing the past -- Approach -- Style and period -- Biography -- Geography and culture -- Type -- Technique -- Theme and analogy -- 3. Evidence -- 4. How useful? -- 5. History and theory -- Notes -- Further reading -- Index of names |
| 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 |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Architecture -- History.
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Architecture -- Historiography.
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| LC no. |
2010537335 |
| ISBN |
9780745644561 hardback |
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0745644562 hardback |
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0745644570 paperback |
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9780745644578 paperback |
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