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A Nocturnal History of Architecture

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For centuries, architectural theory, discourse, and agency have been based on diurnal and solar paradigms. References to the night in Vitruvius' De architectura are residual; they are similarly scarce in the most influential Renaissance treatises by Alberti or Palladio. It was not until the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that the invention and institutionalization of electric light in private and public spaces gradually transformed the agency of night in the architectural discipline. This book is a chronological first attempt at A Nocturnal History of Architecture , an epic journey through

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