Narrating the globe : the emergence of world histories of architecture / edited by Petra Brouwer, Martin Bressani, and Christopher Drew Armstrong.

Title & Author:

Narrating the globe : the emergence of world histories of architecture / edited by Petra Brouwer, Martin Bressani, and Christopher Drew Armstrong.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]

Description:

563 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plans, facsimiles ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Thematic essays -- Monographic studies of key world histories of architecture -- Twenty-first century perspectives on world architectural history.
Part 1. The genre invented -- Part 2. The genre examined -- Part 3. The genre in the present -- Part 4. The genre's afterlife.

Summary:

"An anthology of writings by assorted scholars, accompanied by a lot of original archival illustrations, promoting a new and explicitly global history of largely nineteenth-century architecture"-- Provided by publisher.
"The nineteenth century saw the emergence of a new genre of architectural writing: the grand history of world architecture. This genre often expressed a deeply Eurocentric worldview, largely dismissing non-Western architecture through narratives of historical progress and stylistic beauty. Yet even as nineteenth-century historians worked to construct an exclusive architectural canon, they were engaged in constant debate over its categories and constraints. Narrating the Globe traces the emergence of this historical canon, exposing the questions and problems that prompted the canon's very formation. Bringing together architectural historians from around the world, this collection of essays--the first comprehensive examination of the nineteenth-century architectural history survey as a literary genre--includes overviews of the origins and legacy of the global architecture survey genre, as well as close examinations of key works, including books by lesser-known but intriguing authors such as Louisa C. Tuthill, Christian L. Stieglitz, and Daniel Ramée, and the more famous surveys by James Fergusson, Franz Kugler, Banister Fletcher, and Auguste Choisy. Narrating the Globe is an illuminating read for anyone interested in architectural history's long, complex, and often tendentious trajectory"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780262047975 hardcover
0262047977 hardcover

Subject:

Architecture Historiography.
Architectural writing History 19th century.
Architecture History Sources.
Architecture Historiographie.
Architecture Art d'écrire Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture Histoire Sources.
Architecture

Form/genre:

History
Sources

Added entries:

Brouwer, Petra, editor.
Bressani, Martin, editor.
Armstrong, Christopher Drew, editor.

Emergence of world histories of architecture, 1790-1900

Holdings:

Location: Library main 319329
Call No.: 319329
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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