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A Heretical History of Architecture challenges the conventional understanding of significant developments in Western architecture as a series of alignments among dominant ideologies and artistic programs, arguing instead that the most consequential changes in the evolution of artistic and design practices across Europe between the fifth and seventeenth centuries were motivated by tensions between local religious or cultural traditions and centralized power. This groundbreaking study richly demonstrates the processes through which heterodox beliefs that persisted within numerous diverse communities resulted in design experimentation so syncretic that it has heretofore eluded scholars employing conventional Euro-centric taxonomies of architectural styles.

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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).

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