Table of Contents

Introduction

1. The German Tradition

2. The Architectural Unconscious – Steinberg and Baxandall

3. Modernism- Institutional and Phenomenal

4. From Image to Environment – Reyner Banham’s Architecture

5. The New Art History

6. October’s Architecture

Conclusion

Promotional Information

The first work to explore the changing role of architecture in the study of art history throughout the last one hundred and fifty years.

About the Author

Mark Crinson is Professor of Architectural History and Assistant Dean for Research, School of Arts at Birkbeck, University of London. He won the 2004 Spiro Kostof Prize for his work Modern Architecture and the End of Empire, and the 2012 Historians of British Art Prize for Stirling and Gowan: Architecture from Austerity to Affluence.

Richard Williams is Professor of Contemporary Visual Cultures at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His other books include Why Cities Look The Way They Do (2019), Sex and Buildings (2013), Brazil: Modern Architectures in History (2009) and The Anxious City (2004).