What is Architectural History? - Couverture souple

Leach, Dr Andrew

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0745644570 ISBN 13 : 9780745644578

Editeur : Polity, 2010

Synopsis

What is Architectural History? considers the questions and problems posed by architectural historians since the rise of the discipline in the late nineteenth century. How do historians of architecture organise past time and relate it to the present? How does historical evidence translate into historical narrative? Should architectural history be useful for practicing architects? If so, how? Leach treats the disciplinarity of architectural history as an open question, moving between three key approaches to historical knowledge of architecture: within art history, as an historical specialisation and, most prominently, within architecture. He suggests that the confusions around this question have been productive, ensuring a rich variety of approaches to the project of exploring architecture historically.

Read alongside introductory surveys of western and global architectural history, this book will open up questions of perspective, frame, and intent for students of architecture, art history, and history. Graduate students and established architectural historians will find much in this book to fuel discussions over the current state of the field in which they work.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Andrew Leach is an Australian Postdoctoral Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Architecture at Griffith University

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Polity
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0745644570
• ISBN 13: 9780745644578
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 180
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible