What is architectural history? / Andrew Leach.

Main entry:

Leach, Andrew, 1976-

Title & Author:

What is architectural history? / Andrew Leach.

Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2010.

Description:

xi, 167 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Series:

What is history? series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-163) and index.
Introduction -- Foundations of a modern discipline. Architectural history as the architect's patrimony ; The architect as artist ; Architecture and empirical knowledge ; Architecture and culture ; A modern discipline -- Organizing the past. Approach ; Style and period ; Biography ; Geography and culture ; Type ; Technique ; Theme and analogy -- Evidence -- How useful? -- History and theory.
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Summary:

"How do historians of architecture organize past time and relate it to the present? How does historical evidence translate into historical narrative? Should architectural history be useful for practising architects? If so, how? Leach treats the disciplinarity of architectural history as an open question, moving between three key claims upon historical knowledge of architecture: within art history, as a historical specialization and, most prominently, within architecture."--Back cover.

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ISBN:

9780745644561 (hbk.)
0745644562 (hbk.)
9780745644578 (pbk.)
0745644570 (pbk.)
9780745655208 (e-book)
0745655203

Subject:

Architecture Historiography.
Architecture History Study and teaching.
Architecture Historiographie.
Architecture Histoire Étude et enseignement.
21.60 architecture: general.
Architecture Study and teaching.
Architekturtheorie
Architektur
Geschichte
History of architecture (science)
Architekturgeschichte.
Arkitektur historia.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

What is history?

Holdings:

Location: Library main 268748
Call No.: BIB 200618
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available

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