Böcker av Mark Crinson

What is the place of architecture in the history of art? Why has it been at times central to the discipline, and at other times seemingly so marginal? What is its place now? Many disciplines have a stake in the history of architecture - sociology, anthropology, human geography, to name a few. This book deals with perhaps the most influential tradition of all - art history - examining how the relation between the disciplines of art history and architectural history has waxed and waned over the last one hundred and fifty years. In this highly original study, Mark Crinson and Richard J. Williams point to a decline in the importance attributed to the role of architecture in art history over the last century - which has happened without crisis or self-reflection. The book explores the problem in relation to key art historical approaches, from formalism, to feminism, to the social history of art, and in key institutions from the Museum of Modern Art, to the journal October. Among the key thinkers explored are Banham, Baxandall, Giedion, Panofsky, Pevsner, Pollock, Riegl, Rowe, Steinberg, Wittkower and Wölfflin. The book will provoke debate on the historiography and present state of the discipline of art history, and it makes a powerful case for the reconsideration of architecture.

A bold reassessment of the major architectural monuments and urban forms of the world's first industrial city: Manchester

A revisionist history of the modernist architectural movement, which encapsulated internationalist politics and ideals in the inter-war years and beyond.

James Stirling (1924-1992) is acclaimed as the most influential and controversial modern British architect. His partnership with James Gowan (b 1923) between 1956 and 1963 put postwar British architecture on the international map. This book studies Stirling and Gowan's partnership.

This study explains how and why western architecture was exported in the 19th century to colonies in the East, and how Islamic and Byzantine architectural ideas and styles in turn impacted on the West. It also explores the influence of the East on writers such as Ruskin.