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“Summerson lets us see the city now and the way it develops over time, yes, as an emergence of a style, but he binds that together, making it inseparable from the social and economic dimensions of architecture. That’s the real strength of the work, and its continued influence over time. This was written just after World War II and really opened up a different kind of architectural history following its publication, and its many republications and subsequent additions.” Read more...
The best books on Architecture and Aesthetics
Timothy Hyde, Architects & Architectural Historian
Our most recommended books
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The Four Books on Architecture (I quattro libri dell'architettura)
by Andrea Palladio -
Scheming: A Social History of Glasgow Council Housing, 1919-1956
by Sean Damer -
The Culture of Food
by Massimo Montanari -
Post-Modern Buildings in Britain
by Elain Harwood & Geraint Franklin -
Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism
by Rudolf Wittkower -
Imagined Communities
by Benedict Anderson
