Reading architectural history/

Main Author: Arnold, Dana
Corporate Authors: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Routledge
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2002
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Table of Contents:
  • 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