First Edition. Wraps. Tall 8vo.pp. 229. Original publisher's photographic wraps in metallic gold, lettered white and featuring a photograph of a bombed out library. Black and white photographs and reproductions illustrates the text. Dana Arnold is a Professor of Architectural History and Director of the Centre for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Southampton. ISBN:0415250501. Fine.

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Title

READING ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY

Publisher

Routledge,, London,

Publication Date

2002

Language

English

ISBN 10

0415250501

ISBN 13

9780415250504

Binding

Paperback

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Fine

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Architecture

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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 writings from biographical and social histories to visual surveys and guidebooks to examine the narrative structures of histories of architecture and their impact on perception adn understanding of the architecture of the past. Alongside this, each chapter cites canonical histories juxtaposed with a range of social and cultural theorists, to reveal that these writings are richer than we have perhaps recognised and that architectural production in this period can in interrogated in the same way as that from more recent past - and can be read in a variety of ways.

The essays and texts combine to form an essential course reader for methods and critical approached to architectural history, and more generally as examples of the kind of evidence used in the formation of architectural histories, while also offering a thematic introduction to architecture in Britain and its social and cultural meaning.

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