"Architectural History is more than just the study of buildings. Architecture of the past and the present remains an essential emblem of a distinctive social system and set of cultural values, and as a result it has been the subject of study of a variety of disciplines."
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Dana Arnold, Reading Architectural History (2002), Ch. 1 : Reading the past : What is architectural history?
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