Rethinking Architectural Historiography
Rethinking Architectural Historiography by Dana Arnold, published by Routledge in 2006, offers a comprehensive examination of the evolving landscape of architectural history. This 251-page volume presents a collection of insights that reflect on the current state of the discipline, emphasizing methodological, theoretical, and geographical diversity. The book is structured into three sections that renegotiate the boundaries of architectural history in relation to other fields, such as art history and archaeology, while critically engaging with both past and present narratives.
Readers will find a thoughtful exploration of the assumptions, biases, and gaps within architectural historiography. The text delves into new perspectives that aim to reframe the discipline, addressing contemporary questions regarding the particularity of architectural history. This edition serves as a timely resource for those interested in the intersections of architecture and history, providing a platform for further transformation in the understanding of architectural historiography.
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Rather than subscribing to a single position, this collection informs the reader about the current state of the discipline looking at changes across the broad field of methodological, theoretical and geographical plurality. Divided into three sections, Rethinking Architectural Historiography begins by renegotiating foundational and contemporary boundaries of architectural history in relation to other fields, such as art history and archaeology. It then goes on to critically engage with past and present histories, disclosing assumptions, biases and absences in architectural historiography. It concludes by exploring the possibilities provided by new perspectives, reframing the discipline in the light of new parameters and problematics.
This timely and illustrated title reflects upon the current changes in historiographical practice, exploring potential openings that may contribute further transformation of the disciplines and theories on architectural historiography and addresses the current question of the disciplinary particularity of architectural history.
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