03325oam 2200625I 450 991045077240332120200520144314.00-415-25050-11-134-53232-61-280-05669-X0-203-16447-410.4324/9780203164471 (CKB)1000000000253104(EBL)180559(OCoLC)56360134(SSID)ssj0000307695(PQKBManifestationID)11277566(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000307695(PQKBWorkID)10250252(PQKB)10274454(MiAaPQ)EBC180559(Au-PeEL)EBL180559(CaPaEBR)ebr10100329(CaONFJC)MIL5669(EXLCZ)99100000000025310420180706d2002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrReading architectural history /Dana ArnoldLondon ;New York :Routledge,2002.1 online resource (248 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-203-27842-9 0-415-25049-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-224) and index.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.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 writingArchitectureHistoriographyArchitectureEngland18th centuryElectronic books.ArchitectureHistoriography.Architecture720/.7/2221.60bclArnold Dana.862752MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450772403321Reading architectural history2148770UNINA