Architectural Principles in the Age of Historicism
Description
This book draws from anthropology, ancient history, theology, philosophy and the Holocaust to redefine architectural history for both architects and historians. It also contains ideas and practical propositions that should help sutdents of architecture to build a more human world. The central question of the book is the relationship between architectural history and the current practice of architecture. Van Pelt and Westfall argue that the dominant trends of architectural historiography, which explain buildings and cities in stylistic and cultural-historical terms, deny the historian the po...
ISBN(s)
0300049994, 9780300049992
