Heretical History of Architecture

Andrzej Piotrowski, an architect educated in Poland, is Professor of Architecture at the University of Minnesota. In addition to numerous articles, he has published Architecture of Thought (2011, translated to Polish as Architektura Myślenia, 2022), co-edited The Routledge Handbook on the Reception of Classical Architecture (2019), and The Discipline of Architecture (2001).

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction1 Beliefs and Imagery of Resilient Ancient Worldviews1 Old Religions and Ancient Symbolic Thought2 The Representational Function of Religious Sites3 The Symbolism of Vitality and its Persistence in the Christian West2 Byzantine Iconoclasm and Architecture1 Early Christian Architecture and Pagan Traditions2 Byzantine Iconoclasm, Dualism, and the Paulician Heresy3 Formless Matter and Post-Iconoclastic Armenian Renaissance3 The Bogomils, the Cathars, and Christian Architecture1 The Bogomils and Macedonian Architecture2 Catholic Architecture by the Adriatic Sea3 From the Cathars to French Gothic4 The Architectural Renaissance of Pagan Representations1 The Persistence of Scytho-Indian Traditions2 Quattrocento and the Greek-Byzantine Legacy3 Pagan Beliefs and Design Practices During the Protestant Reformation4 The Architecture of the Polish-Lithuanian Reformation5 Architecture and the Early Modern Modality of Thought1 Design Experimentation Dubiously Called Mannerism2 Design Practices on the Cusp of the Modern Era6 AfterwordBibliographyIndex