Research Catalog

Title

Narrating the globe : the emergence of world histories of architecture / edited by Petra Brouwer, Martin Bressani, and Christopher Drew Armstrong.

Publication

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]

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Additional Authors

• Brouwer, Petra
• Bressani, Martin
• Armstrong, Christopher Drew

Description

563 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plans, facsimiles; 29 cm

Summary

• "An anthology of writings by assorted scholars, accompanied by a lot of original archival illustrations, promoting a new and explicitly global history of largely nineteenth-century architecture"--
• "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 Ramée, 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"--

Alternative Title

Emergence of world histories of architecture, 1790-1900

Subject

• Architecture > Historiography
• Architectural writing > History > 19th century
• Architecture > History > Sources
• Architecture
• Architecture > Historiography

Genre/Form

• History
• Sources

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Thematic essays -- Monographic studies of key world histories of architecture -- Twenty-first century perspectives on world architectural history.
• Part 1. The genre invented -- Part 2. The genre examined -- Part 3. The genre in the present -- Part 4. The genre's afterlife.

Call Number

JQG 23-775

ISBN

• 9780262047975
• 0262047977

LCCN

2022015328

OCLC

1336891925

Title

Narrating the globe : the emergence of world histories of architecture / edited by Petra Brouwer, Martin Bressani, and Christopher Drew Armstrong.

Publisher

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Brouwer, Petra, editor.

Bressani, Martin, editor.

Armstrong, Christopher Drew, editor.

Research Call Number

JQG 23-775