The evolution of western architecture from its origins to the present day: a history of significant forms, says Norberg-Schulz, challenging the established historiographic tradition.
[Meaning in Western Architecture] “History of architecture is history of significant forms… architecture is a living reality… it is concerned with existential meanings, and it translates into spatial meanings”, writes Norberg-Schulz in the preface to this book, which since its first edition in 1974 has been widely acclaimed by an international audience. Starting with this program the author surveys the entire horizon of western architecture: from ancient Egypt to the contemporary architecture of Louis I. Kahn. The volume, apart from its polemical approach to the established historiographic tradition, represents a useful tool for an initial, general knowledge of the evolution of construction from its origins to the present.