Writing, according to Panayotis Tournikiotis, has always exerted a powerful influence on architecture. Indeed, the study of modern architecture cannot be separated from a fascination with the texts that have tried to explain the idea of a new architecture in a new society. During the last forty years, the question of the relationship of architecture to its history -- of buildin...(展开全部)

This book introduces the writings of one of the most influential social philosophers in Italy today to an English-speaking audience. Massimo Cacciari studies the relation between philosophy and modern architecture and applies the thinking of avant-garde architects, artists, and writers to the social and political problems raised by technological society. Essays substantially re...(展开全部)

This book introduces the writings of one of the most influential social philosophers in Italy today to an English-speaking audience. Massimo Cacciari studies the relation between philosophy and modern architecture and applies the thinking of avant-garde architects, artists, and writers to the social and political problems raised by technological society.

格奥尔格·伊格尔斯（Georg G. Iggers, 1926—2017），国际知名的欧洲思想史、史学史和史学理论学者，生前曾在美国纽约州立大学布法罗校区任历史系杰出教授多年。著有《德国的历史观念：从赫尔德至今的历史思想传统》《欧洲史学新方向》《二十世纪的历史学：从科学的客观性到后现代的挑战》等，被翻译成包括中文在内的十多种文字。 王晴佳，美国新泽西州罗文大学历史系教授，北京大学长江学者，国际史学史、史学理论委员会理事。长于比较史学史、史学理论和比较文化史，主要著作包括《西方的历史观念：从古希腊到现代》《后现代与历史学：中西比较》《新史学讲演录》《外国史学史》等。 苏普里娅·穆赫吉（Supriya Mukherjee），任教于加拿大马尼托巴大学（University of Manitoba），对印度史学和德国史有深入的观察和研究。

So far histories of historiography have concentrated almost exclusively on the West. This is the first book to offer a history of modern historiography from a global perspective. Tracing the transformation of historical writings over the past two and half centuries, the book portrays the transformation of historical writings under the affect of professionalization, which served...(展开全部)

Between the late Renaissance and the early nineteenth century, the ancient arts of architecture were being profoundly transformed by the scientific revolution. This important book, which won the 1984 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, traces the process by which the mystical and numerological grounds for the use of number and geometry in building gave way to the more functional and t...(展开全部)

The Sources of Modern Architecture and Design

意大利知名史学家，被誉为“古典世界历史文献的首席学者”，1936年成为Turin大学的罗马史教授，但是作为一个犹太人，不久就失去了教席并移居英国（1938年），继续任教于牛津大学、伦敦大学学院（1951-1975），也经常访问芝加哥大学等。除了研究古代希腊历史和它的方法论，莫米利亚诺对现代史学也颇感兴趣（比如吉本），撰写了大量相关的研究。

Paradoxically, Swiss art historian and architecture critic Sigfried Giedion (1888–1968) would only consolidate his reputation as one of the most influential architectural historians of the twentieth century far from his homeland, in America. In his study of Giedion’s life and work Reto Geiser foregrounds the formative character of Giedion’s extended stays in the United States a...(展开全部)