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Reading architectural history / Dana Arnold.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.Description: xvii, 229 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. ; pbkISBN:
  • 0415250501 (pb)
  • 0203164474
  • 0415250498 (hb)
  • 9780415250498 (hb)
  • 9780415250504 (pb)
  • 9780203164471
  • 9780415250504:
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.722
Online resources:
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/ E H 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 discources of gender -- Sexism and the star system in architecture / Denis Scott Brown -- Planning and representation in the early modern country house / Alice T Friedman.
Summary: Dana Arnold concentrates on fundamental texts in the study of architectural history with special reference to 18th and 19th century British architectural works. The texts address key themes in the construction of architectural histories.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
General Lending Wexford Campus Library Wexford General Lending 720.722 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 73628

CW098

Includes bibliographical references 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/ E H 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 discources of gender -- Sexism and the star system in architecture / Denis Scott Brown -- Planning and representation in the early modern country house / Alice T Friedman.

Dana Arnold concentrates on fundamental texts in the study of architectural history with special reference to 18th and 19th century British architectural works. The texts address key themes in the construction of architectural histories.

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