History of Architecture and Monument Conservation

‘Architecture’ may at first appear to be a more fixed and finite term. It has a threedimensional, tangible, useable form. But questions remain about what can be considered architecture and what cannot, and by this I mean that we usually understand architecture to incorporate aesthetic as well as functional consideration into its structure. Anything that does not fall into this category can be described as ‘just a building’. This may seem too simple. Can architecture be determined solely by the use of refined architectural style – high or polite architecture instead of vernacular?

The greater part of what passes for diplomatic history is little more than the record of what one clerk said to another clerk.

Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.