Reading Architectural History
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Hoboken
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780203164471
Subjects: Architecture; Architecture-- Historiography
Description: Architectural history is more than just the study of buildings. Architecture of the past and present remains an essential emblem of a distinctive social system and set of cultural values and as a result it has been the subject of study of a variety of disciplines. But what is architectural history and how should we read it?Reading Architectural History examines the historiographic and socio/cultural implications of the mapping of British architectural history with particular reference to eighteenth - and nineteenth-century Britain. Discursive essays consider a range of writing.
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