What is architectural history? / Andrew Leach.
What is architectural history? / Andrew Leach.
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Publisher
Cambridge : Polity, c2010.
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N720.9/76
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Language
English
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Physical content
xi, 167 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents
List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- How to use this book -- Introduction -- 1. Foundations of a modern discipline -- Architectural history as the architect's patrimony -- The architect as artist -- Architecture and empirical knowledge -- Architecture and culture -- A modern discipline? -- 2...
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Publisher
Cambridge : Polity, c2010.
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Place of Publication
England
Date Published
c2010.
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Summary
"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 histor...
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What is architectural history? / Andrew Leach.
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What is history? series.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2010.
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N720.9/76
Record Identifier
74VM0LGdbXbl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VM0LGdbXbl
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ISBN
9780745644578 (pbk.)
9780745644561 (hbk.)
0745644562 (hbk.)
0745644570 (pbk.)
DDC
720.9
MMS ID
991001761109702626
