Revisionist Histories and Their Limits

A cursory overview of the recent literature in architectural history reveals a startling disparity between the increasing number of reprints of well-established reference books, only seldom updated, and the almost complete absence of courageous new attempts to rewrite the history of this discipline...

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Hovedforfatter: Rosso, Michela
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Sprog:Français
Udgivet: ABE Journal 2012
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Online adgang:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Summary:A cursory overview of the recent literature in architectural history reveals a startling disparity between the increasing number of reprints of well-established reference books, only seldom updated, and the almost complete absence of courageous new attempts to rewrite the history of this discipline according to its latest and most innovative achievements. As a matter of fact, the flood of doctoral dissertations, architectural biographies, and hyperdetailed archeological analyses of building ...