Narrating the Globe
The Emergence of World Histories of Architecture
$131.96
- Hardcover
566 pages
- Release Date
17 October 2023
Summary
The nineteenth century saw the emergence of a new genre of architectural writing: the grand history of world architecture. This genre often expressed a deeply Eurocentric worldview, largely dismissing non-Western architecture through narratives of historical progress and stylistic beauty. Yet even as nineteenth-century historians worked to construct an exclusive architectural canon, they were engaged in constant debate over its categories and constraints.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262047975 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262047977 |
| Author: | Petra Brouwer, Martin Bressani |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 566 |
| Release Date: | 17 October 2023 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 286mm |
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Petra Brouwer
Petra Brouwer is an architectural historian at the University of Amsterdam who specializes in the history of modern architecture and town planning. She is the author of an award-winning study of the postwar design of Dutch new towns and has also served as editor-in-chief for the journal Architectural Histories.
Martin Bressani is William C. Macdonald Professor at McGill University’s Peter G-H Fu School of Architecture in Montreal. He is the coeditor of the Nineteenth-Century Architecture volume of The Companions to the History of Architecture and the author of Architecture and the Historical Imagination: Eug ne-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc.
Christopher Drew Armstrong is an Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, where he directs the Architectural Studies program. His many publications include the book Julien-David Leroy and the Making of Architectural History.
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