ABSTRACT
How can architectural history and the design studio be integrated? This is a
question that 15 teachers of history working in design schools in the UK attempt
to answer in essays collected by Hardy and Teymur in their book, Architectural
History and the Design Studio.1 The 15 authors, with certain provisos, all agree
that integration is desirable, but their various solutions to the problem of how it
might be achieved are divergent and unconvincing. The divergence in the
proffered panaceas for reintegration mirrors the different ways the authors view
the proper role of architectural history in the design schools.
