Explores the relationship between architectural history and the current practice of architecture. The authors draw on insights from anthropology, ancient histor

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Sir Kenneth Clark wrote in the Architectural Review, that the first result of this book was "to dispose, once and for all, of the hedonist, or purely aesthetic,

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