What is architectural history?
By: Andrew Leach
Publisher: Polity
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9780745644561; 9780745644578
Subjects: Historiography; Architecture
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [156]-163) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Foundations of a modern discipline; title: Organizing the past; title: Evidence; title: How useful?; title: History and theory.