Petra Brouwer, Martin Bressani, and Christopher Drew Armstrong (eds.), Narrating the Globe: The Emergence of World Histories of Architecture

In the mid-19th century, a new genre of architectural publications appeared and flourished in Europe and the United States. These were handbooks narrating the global history of architecture, small books intended to provide concise and coherent stories about the development of architecture worldwide...

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Hovedforfatter: Ripatti, Anna Pauliina
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Sprog:Anglais
Udgivet: ABE Journal 2025
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Summary:In the mid-19th century, a new genre of architectural publications appeared and flourished in Europe and the United States. These were handbooks narrating the global history of architecture, small books intended to provide concise and coherent stories about the development of architecture worldwide. Although their scope was supposed to be global, they fostered an enduring Eurocentric canon for the nascent discipline of architectural history. These publications formed a longstanding basis for...