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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 Historiographybegins by renegotiating foundational and contemporary boundaries of architectural history in relation to other fields, such as art history and archaeology. 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, reframing the discipline in the light of new parameters and problematics.

This timely and illustrated title reflects upon the current changes in historiographical practice, exploring potential openings that may contribute further transformation of the disciplines and theories on architectural historiography and addresses the current question of the disciplinary particularity of architectural history.

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• List of figures(p. vii)
• Notes on contributors(p. ix)
• Preface(p. xv)
• Introduction: mapping architectural historiography(p. 1)
• Part I Boundaries(p. 15)
• 1 Art history and architectural history(p. 17)
• 2 Buildings archaeology: context and points of convergence(p. 24)
• 3 Architecture as evidence(p. 36)
• 4 Program and programs(p. 50)
• 5 Hercules at the roundabout: multidisciplinary choice in the history of architecture(p. 60)
• 6 Frontiers of fear: architectural history, the anchor and the sail(p. 74)
• Part II Critical engagements(p. 83)
• 7 Questions of Ottoman identity and architectural history(p. 85)
• 8 In Ordinary Time: considerations on a video installation by Inigo Manglano Ovalle and the New National Gallery in Berlin by Mies van der Rohe(p. 110)
• 9 Reopening the question of document in architectural historiography: reading (writing) Filarete's treatise on architecture for (in) Piero de' Medici's study(p. 121)
• 10 From architectural history to spatial writing(p. 135)
• 11 Presenting Ankara: popular conceptions of architecture and history(p. 151)
• Part III Reframings(p. 169)
• 12 Space, time, and architectural history(p. 171)
• 13 Visuality and architectural history(p. 183)
• 14 The digital disciplinary divide: reactions to historical virtual reality models(p. 200)
• 15 The afterlife of buildings: architecture and Walter Benjamin's theory of history(p. 215)
• 16 Beyond a boundary: towards an architectural history of the non-east(p. 229)
• Index(p. 246)

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Dana Arnoldis Chair in Architectural History and Director at the Centre for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism, University of Southampton, UK. She has held research fellowships at Yale University; the University of Cambridge and the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles and has been a visiting Professor in the United States, Canada and Britain. Her previous publications includeRural Urbanism(2006);Reading Architectural History(2002) and the co-edited volumeArchitecture as Experience(2004). Her current work on hospitals as agents of social, cultural and urban change will be published by Routledge in 2008.

Elvan Altan Ergutis Assistant Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Architecture at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. She received her PhD in Art History from State University of New York at Binghamton. Her research areas include architecture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and architectural historiography. She is currently editing one volume on Republican architecture in Turkey (METU Faculty of Architecture Press, 2006) and another one on local modernisms in Turkish provinces (Turkish Chamber of Architects, 2006).

Belgin Turan Özkayais Associate Professor of Architectural History in the Department of Architecture at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. She received her PhD in History of Architecture and Urbanism from Cornell University, was a fellow at the 1999 Getty Summer institute in Visual Studies and Art History and a Visiting Scholar at Canadian Centre for Architecture in 2000-2001. She has published on the Italian Tendenza, Ottoman-Venetian relations and architectural historiography. Her work is located at the interstices of architectural history and contemporary interdisciplinary theory. Currently, she is working on an edited volume on visuality and architecture.