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HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 2003
Abstract The term ‘history’ is confusingly ambiguous, not least in being identified both as the study of the whole of the past and only that part of the past accessible through the written record. This has an effect on those historical disciplines such as architectural history in which the study of the material evidence is inseparable from that ...
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Architectural History or Landscape History?

Journal of Architectural Education, 1991
As an accident of its historical development, architectural history suffers from captivity to analytical assumptions that were invented in the nineteenth century to justify the claims of the architectural profession. This paper questions the utility of several of the elementary categories of architectural history, including the assumption of aesthetic ...
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Architectural History’s Futures

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 2015
> You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big, and it reverberates throughout the surrounding area. What comes out of the pond after that? All we can do is stare at the pond, holding our breath. > > — Haruki Murakami , 1Q84 What is the future of architectural history?
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Post-Western Histories of Architecture

2023
This book seeks to provide an alternative post-Western perspective to the history of contemporary architecture. It puts forward detailed critical analyses of various areas of the world, including Europe, Latin America, Africa, China, Australia, India and Japan, where particular movements of architecture have developed as active ‘political acts’.
Pilar Guerrieri, Marco Biraghi
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Library Architecture: History

2009
The history of library architecture goes back to the third millennium before Christ. Library architecture has been closely related to the development of library collections and their materials: from the clay tablets and papyri of temple libraries to the stately interiors of noble and royal libraries and the rationally organized stacks of the twentieth ...
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American Architectural History

Journal of Architectural Education, 2005
(2005). American Architectural History. Journal of Architectural Education: Vol. 59, No. 2, pp. 63-64.
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Architectural History in Schools of Architecture

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 1999
tion, for ambiguity can take many forms. And yet again, the issues underlying these ambiguities do display certain consistencies: Is history germane to architectural production, or education? Or not? Is history an autonomous discipline or a "service"?
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Reading Architectural History

2002
The author concentrates on fundamental texts in the study of architectural history with special reference to eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain. The texts under discussion address key themes or methods in the construction of architectural histories.
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THE ARCHITECT, HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 2003
Abstract The relation of the architect to architecture is elusive, since documentation can be scarce and the cult of the individual architect as a hero has allowed less well-recorded individuals to disappear from the narrative. The collaborative nature of building throughout history has been lost to historians.
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