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by Petra Brouwer (Editor); Martin Bressani (Editor); Christopher Drew Armstrong (Editor)


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How notions of progress, beauty, and cultural superiority structured the genre of nineteenth-century world histories of architecture--and shaped the discipline as we know it today. The nineteenth century saw the emergence of a new genre of architectural writing: the grand history of world architecture. This genre often expressed a deeply Eurocentric worldview, largely dismissing non-Western architecture through narratives of historical progress and stylistic beauty. Yet even as nineteenth-century historians worked to construct an exclusive architectural canon, they were engaged in constant debate over its categories and constraints. Narrating the Globe traces the emergence of this historical canon, exposing the questions and problems that prompted the canon's very formation. Bringing together architectural historians from around the world, this collection of essays--the first comprehensive examination of the nineteenth-century architectural history survey as a literary genre--includes overviews of the origins and legacy of the global architecture survey genre, as well as close examinations of key works, including books by lesser-known but intriguing authors such as Louisa C. Tuthill, Christian L. Stieglitz, and Daniel Rame, and the more famous surveys by James Fergusson, Franz Kugler, Banister Fletcher, and Auguste Choisy. Narrating the Globe is an illuminating read for anyone interested in architectural history's long, complex, and often tendentious trajectory.

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  • Title Narrating the Globe: The Emergence of World Histories of Architecture
  • Author Petra Brouwer (Editor); Martin Bressani (Editor); Christopher Drew Armstrong (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 564
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher MIT Press
  • ISBN 9780262047975 / 0262047977
  • Library of Congress subjects Architecture - History, Architecture - Historiography
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2022015328
  • Dewey Decimal Code 720.9

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Petra Brouwer is an architectural historian at the University of Amsterdam who specializes in the history of modern architecture and town planning. Author of an award-winning study of postwar design of Dutch new towns, she has also served as editor-in-chief for the journal Architectural Histories. Martin Bressani is William C. Macdonald Professor at McGill University's Peter G-H Fu School of Architecture in Montral. Coeditor of the Nineteenth-Century Architecture volume of The Companions to the History of Architecture, he is also the author of Architecture and the Historical Imagination: Eugne-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc. Christopher Drew Armstrong is an Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, where he directs the Architectural Studies program. His many publications include the book Julien-David Leroy and the Making of Architectural History.
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