Architecture Re-assembled_The Use and (Abuse) of History

Beginning from the rise of modern history in the eighteenth century, this book examines how changing ideas in the discipline of history itself has affected architecture from the beginning of modernity up to the present day. This is not simply another history of architecture, nor a ‘history of histories’. Setting buildings in their contemporaneous ideas about history, it spans from Fischer von Erlach to Venturi and Rossi, and beyond to architects working in the fallout from both the Modern Movement Aalto, Louis Kahn, Aldo van Eyck and Post-modernism such as Rafael Moneo and Peter Zumthor. It reflects upon history in order to encourage and assist the reader in finding well-founded principles for architectural design.