How notions of progress, beauty, and cultural superiority structured the genre of nineteenth-century world histories of architecture--and shaped the discipline as we know it today. The nineteenth century saw the emergence of a new genre of architectural writing: the grand history of world architecture. This genre often expressed a deeply Eurocentric worldview, largely dismissing non-Western architecture through narratives of historical progress and stylistic beauty. Yet even as nineteenth-century historians worked to construct an exclusive architectural canon, they were engaged in constant debate over its categories and constraints.
Narrating the Globe traces the emergence of this historical canon, exposing the questions and problems that prompted the canon's very formation.
Bringing together architectural historians from around the world, this collection of essays--the first comprehensive examination of the nineteenth-century architectural history survey as a literary genre--includes overviews of the origins and legacy of the global architecture survey genre, as well as close examinations of key works, including books by lesser-known but intriguing authors such as Louisa C. Tuthill, Christian L. Stieglitz, and Daniel Ramée, and the more famous surveys by James Fergusson, Franz Kugler, Banister Fletcher, and Auguste Choisy.
Narrating the Globe is an illuminating read for anyone interested in architectural history's long, complex, and often tendentious trajectory.
如何進步、美感和文化優越的觀念塑造了十九世紀世界建築史的類型，並影響了我們今天所知的學科。
十九世紀見證了一種新的建築寫作類型的出現：世界建築的宏大歷史。這一類型常常表達出深刻的歐洲中心主義世界觀，主要通過歷史進步和風格美感的敘述來輕視非西方建築。然而，即使在十九世紀的歷史學家努力構建一個排他性的建築典範時，他們也不斷地對其類別和限制進行辯論。《敘述全球》追溯了這一歷史典範的出現，揭示了促使該典範形成的問題和疑問。
這本論文集匯集了來自世界各地的建築歷史學家，是對十九世紀建築歷史調查作為文學類型的首次全面檢視，包含了全球建築調查類型的起源和遺產的概述，以及對一些關鍵作品的深入研究，包括一些不太知名但引人入勝的作者如 Louisa C. Tuthill、Christian L. Stieglitz 和 Daniel Ramée 的著作，以及更著名的調查作品如 James Fergusson、Franz Kugler、Banister Fletcher 和 Auguste Choisy 的作品。《敘述全球》對於任何對建築歷史的漫長、複雜且常常充滿爭議的發展感興趣的人來說，都是一本啟發性的讀物。
Petra Brouwer is an architectural historian at the University of Amsterdam who specializes in the history of modern architecture and town planning. Author of an award-winning study of postwar design of Dutch new towns, she has also served as editor-in-chief for the journal
Architectural Histories.
Martin Bressani is William C. Macdonald Professor at McGill University's Peter G-H Fu School of Architecture in Montréal. Coeditor of the
Nineteenth-Century Architecture volume of
The Companions to the History of Architecture, he is also the author of
Architecture and the Historical Imagination: Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc. Christopher
Drew Armstrong is an Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, where he directs the Architectural Studies program. His many publications include the book
Julien-David Leroy and the Making of Architectural History.
佩特拉·布勞爾（Petra Brouwer）是阿姆斯特丹大學的建築歷史學家，專門研究現代建築和城市規劃的歷史。她是關於荷蘭新城鎮戰後設計的獲獎研究的作者，並曾擔任期刊《Architectural Histories》的主編。
馬丁·布雷薩尼（Martin Bressani）是麥吉爾大學彼得·G·H·傅建築學院的威廉·C·麥克唐納教授。他是《建築史伴侶》（The Companions to the History of Architecture）中《十九世紀建築》（Nineteenth-Century Architecture）卷的共同編輯，也是《建築與歷史想像：尤金-艾曼紐·維奧萊-勒-杜克》（Architecture and the Historical Imagination: Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc）的作者。
克里斯托弗·德魯·阿姆斯特朗（Christopher Drew Armstrong）是匹茲堡大學的副教授，負責建築研究計劃。他的多部出版物包括《朱利安-大衛·勒羅伊與建築歷史的形成》（Julien-David Leroy and the Making of Architectural History）一書。
