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HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 2003Abstract 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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Leonardo, 1977
19th edition of the work originally written by Sir Banister Fletcher of which a substantial part has been rewritten, updated and rearranged. The new material covers in particular the history of architecture in Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Far East and Australia. New chapters on 20th century architecture have also been added.
Banister Fletcher, J. C. Palmes
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19th edition of the work originally written by Sir Banister Fletcher of which a substantial part has been rewritten, updated and rearranged. The new material covers in particular the history of architecture in Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Far East and Australia. New chapters on 20th century architecture have also been added.
Banister Fletcher, J. C. Palmes
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An architectural history of metaphors
AI & SOCIETY, 2010This paper presents a review and an historical perspective on the architectural metaphor. It identifies common characteristics and peculiarities—as they apply to given historical periods—and analyses the similarities and divergences. The review provides a vocabulary, which will facilitate an appreciation of existing and new metaphors.
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Architectural History in Schools of Architecture
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 1999tion, 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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Post-Western Histories of Architecture
2023This 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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The Hospital
The article reflects on the contemporary condition of architecture and art in the postmodern era. The author emphasizes that the former ideas of the avant-garde and modernism have lost their strength, giving way to a diversity of forms, the absence of coherent manifestos, and a pursuit of novelty. Contemporary architecture combines contradictory styles
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The article reflects on the contemporary condition of architecture and art in the postmodern era. The author emphasizes that the former ideas of the avant-garde and modernism have lost their strength, giving way to a diversity of forms, the absence of coherent manifestos, and a pursuit of novelty. Contemporary architecture combines contradictory styles
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The Architecture of America: A Social and Cultural History
Technology and Culture, 1961Account of the evolution of american architecture from derivative european forms. Relation of architecture to the growth of american society, to development of arts and letters. Assessment of building types, social process and position of architects. Chronological presentation of major themes and buildings. With photos.
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THE ARCHITECT, HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 2003Abstract 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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