Details

Description

xvii, 229 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-224) and index.

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.

Subject

Architecture -- Historiography.

Architecture -- England -- History -- 18th century.

ISBN

0415250498 (hb)

0415250501 (pb)