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Athena

Architectural history: its struggles and successes

RCHITECTURAL history enjoys strangely mixed public fortunes in the UK. It’s always been a marginal academic subject and the anecdotal impression is that the recent tightening of financial belts is further reducing its presence in our universities. It hasn’t helped that some architecture departments were once so mesmerised by the spell of Modernism that

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