What is Architectural History?
A new book by Andrew Leach explores the recent history and theoretical concerns of the architectural history discipline. Published in the Polity series What is History? - initiated by cultural historian Peter Burke - What is Architectural History? offers the first pan-geographical account of the work of modern and contemporary architectural historians to be published in more than three decades.
A recent review in the Architectural Research Quarterly described it as 'a remarkable book which should prove extremely useful to anyone interested in the place of architecture in society, and in the questions faced by architects and historians when addressing the inheritance from the past or the practice of the present.'
The Chinese edition of What is Architectural History? will be published by the Peking University Press in 2013.