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Book DescriptionThe 20th edition of Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture is the first major work ofhistory to include an overview of the architectural achievements of the 20th Century. BanisterFletcher has been the standard one volume architectural history for over 100 years and continuesto give a concise and factual account of world architecture from the earliest times. In thistwentieth and centenary edition, edited by Dan Cruickshank with three consultant editors andfourteen new contributors, chapters have been recast and expanded and a third of the text is new.* There are new chapters on the twentieth-century architecture of the Middle East (includingIsrael), South-east Asia, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea, the Indian subcontinent, Russia and theSoviet Union, Eastern Europe and Latin America. * The chapter on traditional architecture ofIndia has been rewritten and the section on traditional Chinese architecture has been expanded,both with new specially commissioned drawings * The architecture of the Americas before 1900has been enlarged to include, for the first time, detailed coverage of Latin America and theCaribbean * The book's scope has been widened to include more architecture from outside Europe* The bibliography has been expanded into a separate section and is a key source of informationon every period of world architecture * The coverage of the 20th century architecture of NorthAmerica has been divided into two chapters to allow fuller coverage of contemporary works *20th century architecture of Western Europe has been radically recast * For the first time thearchitecture of the twentieth century is considered as a whole and assessed in an historicalperspective * Coverage has been extended to include buildings completed during the last ten years* The coverage of Islamic architecture has been increased and re-organised to form a selfcontained section This unique reference book places buildings in their social, cultural andhistorical settings to describe the main patterns of architectural development, from Prehistoric tothe International Style. Again in the words of Sir Banister Fletcher, this book shows that'Architecture ... provides a key to the habits, thoughts and aspirations of the people, and without aknowledge of this art the history of any period lacks that human interest with which it should beinvested.' *Winner of the International Architecture Book Award, The American Institute ofArchitects Book of the Century. *THE source book for the historical development of architecture

When MoMA proposed in the early 1940s that Rudofsky create an architectural exhibition, the Austrian, who was a keen aficionado of primitiveness, suggested a show on vernacular. His offer, initially rejected, ultimately came to fruition in 1964 (Scott 2000). Vernacular had become a respectable object, not only in terms of practicing architecture but also of writing art history. Hence, this interlude highlights the importance of folklore studies in art history in the first half of the 20th century and its lasting effects on architectural historiography. This in turn allows us to connect the two sections composing the second part of my reflection on the flattening of architectural history. 2b1af7f3a8