Rethinking Architectural Historiography

Rather than subscribing to a single position, this collection informs the reader about the current state of the discipline looking at changes across the broad field of methodological, theoretical and geographical plurality. Divided into three sections, Rethinking Architectural Historiography begins by renegotiating foundational and contemporary boundaries of architectural history in relation to other cognate fields. It then goes on to critically engage with past and present histories, disclosing assumptions, biases and absences in architectural historiography. It concludes by exploring the possibilities provided by new perspectives and reframing the discipline in the light of new parameters and problematics. Featuring distinctive contributions from authors belonging to a variety of art and architecture backgrounds, this timely and internationally relevant title reflects upon the current changes in historiographical practice, exploring potential openings that may contribute to further transformation of the disciplines and theories on architectural historiography, and addresses the current question of the disciplinary particularity of architectural history.Ergut, Elvan Altan is the author of 'Rethinking Architectural Historiography', published 2006 under ISBN 9780415360852 and ISBN 0415360854.