Reading Architectural History

Name: Reading Architectural History
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ISBN: 9780415250504

ISBN-10: 0415250501

ISBN-13: 9780415250504

Edition: 2002

Authors: Dana Arnold

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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…

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List price: $65.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 9/20/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.89" wide x 9.69" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English




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