1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450772403321

Autore

Arnold Dana

Titolo

Reading architectural history / / Dana Arnold

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2002

ISBN

0-415-25050-1

1-134-53232-6

1-280-05669-X

0-203-16447-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Classificazione

21.60

Disciplina

720/.7/22

Soggetti

Architecture - Historiography

Architecture - England - 18th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-224) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Reading the past : what is architectural history? What is history? / EH Carr ; The fictions of factual representation / Hayden White -- The authority of the author : biography and the reconstruction of the canon. Biographical dictionary / Sir Howard Colvin ; What is an author? / Michel Foucault -- On classical ground : histories of style. Architecture in Britain, 1530-1830 / Sir John Summerson ; Art history and class struggle / Nicos Hadjinicolaou -- A class performance : social histories of architecture. Life in the English country house / Mark Girouard ; In search of cultural history / EH Gombrich --The illusion of inclusion : the guidebook and historic architecture. The buildings of England / Sir Nikolaus Pevsner ; The Blue guide / Roland Barthes -- Reading architectural herstories : the discourses of gender. Sexism and the star system in architecture / Denise Scott Brown ; Planning and representation in the early modern country house / Alice T Friedman.

Sommario/riassunto

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

2.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00514889

Autore

Falkenstein, Henning

Titolo

Heinrich Boll / Henning Falkenstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, : Morgenbuch, c1996

ISBN

33-7100-398-1

Edizione

[Uberarbeitete Neuaflage]

Descrizione fisica

95 p. ; 19 cm

Disciplina

833

Soggetti

NARRATIVA TEDESCA

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia