This article proposes a new perspective on the contemporary standing of architectural history by examining the transition from architectural histories grounded in and upon textuality to an architectural historical approach formulated though the theoretical understanding of cultural techniques. Taking as a case study the cabin built by the philosopher Henry David Thoreau—and posing the wilfully deceptive question “Can there be an architectural history of Walden?”—the article concludes that the transformative implication is an architectural history that is not a discipline in and of itself, but that is instead the remainder of limits defined in the techniques of other disciplines.

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“建筑好，但屋顶差”：建筑历史遗迹笔记

本文通过考察从以文本为基础的建筑历史到通过对文化技术的理论理解而制定的建筑历史方法的转变，提出了关于建筑史当代地位的新视角。以哲学家亨利·大卫·梭罗建造的小屋为例——并提出了一个故意欺骗性的问题“瓦尔登湖会有建筑史吗？”——文章得出的结论是，变革性的含义是建筑史，而不是建筑史。和它本身，但那是其他学科技术中定义的其余限制。