Rome is the white whale of history—as immense as it is elusive—and in chasing after it the historian will learn much more about himself or herself than about the beast itself. It is a subject that undoes modern history’s claims at objectivity, the scale of its past and its irreconcilability … Read More
Tag: Architecture
Andrew Leach on Architectural History
What is Architectural History? is organized by five chapters. The first positions modern, academic architectural history (the architectural history of Wölfflin, Gurlitt, Riegl and their contemporaries) as a disciplinary inheritance of four traditions for knowing architecture as a past field. These are the presentation of architectural history in the architectural … Read More
