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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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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 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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Architectural History or Landscape History?
Journal of Architectural Education, 1991As 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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Fabrications, 2006
The case-study of two Brussels architectural exhibitions of the1880s draws insights into several issues. The expositions nationalesd architecture had a direct function in the artistic image-building of a professional organisation of architects, but this function was paralleled by their position, in the development of nineteenth-century Belgian ...
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The case-study of two Brussels architectural exhibitions of the1880s draws insights into several issues. The expositions nationalesd architecture had a direct function in the artistic image-building of a professional organisation of architects, but this function was paralleled by their position, in the development of nineteenth-century Belgian ...
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2019
Urban Design, Architecture and Decorative Art were primarily based on climate, comfort and health issues as we could read in the treatises of Vitruvius, Alberti or later Haussmann, talking about wind and solar exposures, humidity and temperature rates.
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Urban Design, Architecture and Decorative Art were primarily based on climate, comfort and health issues as we could read in the treatises of Vitruvius, Alberti or later Haussmann, talking about wind and solar exposures, humidity and temperature rates.
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