{"product_id":"what-is-architectural-history-9780745644578","title":"What Is Architectural History","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* Introductory overview of the discipline of architectural history, in the What is History? series.     * Provides students with an entry point to the major theories, concepts, and debates around the study of the history of architecture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A remarkable book which should prove extremely useful to anyone interested in the place of architecture in society, and in the questions faced by architects and historians when addressing the inheritance from the past or the practice of the present.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eArchitectural Research Quarterly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cp\u003e\"Though the book is aimed primarily at students in schools of architecture and departments of art history, the clarity of Leach's prose and his penetrating syntheses make the book useful even for a more senior audience.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eJournal of Architectural Education\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A timely arrival in the wake of claims for architecture's 'critical' and 'post-critical' status, this concise little book will prove a valuable compass to the on-going debates over the nature and future of architectural history. In a series of catholic cross-sections, Leach offers an erudite and even-handed account of the main lines of the discipline's (often divergent) developments even as he asks difficult questions regarding architectural historians' most basic assumptions.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJohn Harwood, Oberlin College\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In this remarkable book, Andrew Leach makes the complex topic of historical knowledge in architecture accessible to a wide audience. He examines the discipline from multiple perspectives, considering the shifts in theoretical and methodological positions and situating them in their historic contexts. He reveals the richness of the field by highlighting its strategies, ambiguities, engagements with other disciplines, negotiations between polarities (high culture\/low culture and the general \/the particular), and relationship to architectural practice. Through a careful analysis of key texts, Leach leads the reader to the ultimate question of the meaning of architectural history today.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eZeynip Celik, New Jersey Institute of Technology\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is a very welcome addition to the sparsely populated field of studies on the historiography of architectural history. It is written in a clear, engaging and jargon-free language, but offers advanced undergraduate and graduate students an intellectually very sophisticated grounding in the origins and development of architectural history. By defining architectural history not as a purely academic pursuit, but as a cultural practice taking as its subject the multiple cultural agencies architecture exercises, it solidly places writing architectural history at the centre of today's reflection on culture.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eCaroline van Eck, Leiden University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of illustrations vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow to use this book xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Foundations of a modern discipline 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArchitectural history as the architect’s patrimony 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe architect as artist 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArchitecture and empirical knowledge 25\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArchitecture and culture 31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA modern discipline? 36\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Organizing the past 41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eApproach 43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStyle and period 44\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBiography 52\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeography and culture 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eType 61\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTechnique 66\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheme and analogy 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Evidence 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 How useful? 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 History and theory 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 134\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther reading 156\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex of names 164\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Polity Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49930746003799,"sku":"9780745644578","price":19.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745644578.jpg?v=1738627447","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/what-is-architectural-history-9780745644578","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}