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The Spaces of the Hospital
Spatiality and Urban Change in London 1680-1820
The Spaces of the Hospital examines how hospitals operated as a complex category of social, urban and architectural space in London from 1680 to 1820. This period witnessed the transformation of the city into a modern metropolis. The hospital was very much part of this process and its spaces, both...
To Be Published July 10th 2013 by Routledge
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Biographies & Space
Placing the Subject in Art and Architecture
Bringing together a collection of high-profile authors, Biographies and Space presents essays exploring the relationship between biography and space and how specific subjects are used as a means of explaining sets of social, cultural and spatial relationships. Biographical methods of historical...
Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
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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...
Published August 24th 2006 by Routledge
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Architecture as Experience
Radical Change in Spatial Practice
Architecture as Experience investigates the perception and appropriation of places across intervals of time and culture. The particular concern of the volume is to bring together fresh empirical research and animate it through contact with theoretical sophistication, without overwhelming the...
Published March 10th 2004 by Routledge
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Reading Architectural History
Architectural history is more than just the study of buildings. Architecture of the past and present remains an essential emblem of a distinctive social system and set of cultural values and as a result it has been the subject of study of a variety of disciplines. But what is architectural history...
Published July 24th 2002 by Routledge