Watkin David. The Rise of Architectural History

Architectural Press, 1980. — 224 p.This book is a first attempt to sketch the outline of the study of architectural history from the seventeenth century to the present day, primarily in England, though also taking into account German, French, Italian and American historiography. It is strange that so important a topic should have been so widely ignored, because our knowledge of cultural history can be extended in fascinating and unexpected directions by investigation of the ways in which people have thought about and studied architecture, the kinds of values and meanings they think it embodies, and the extent to which these ideas have changed with the varying intellectual climate of successive generations.