摘要:As a genre of architectural history, the architect biography seems to be on the wane.In the past two decades, the monographic approach to the discipline has been cross-examined by written works that tackle the subject from different angles: from the point of view of the client, the builder, or—though to a lesser extent—the user.An entire body of books and articles have tried to analyze the interaction between specific architectural cultures and their social and economic contexts; a growing ...