If the Westernization of architectural history fails, the entire process will be doomed and

in the fields of architecture and urban planning, a "provincialization" of

Europe can contribute to opening up unique and fruitful fields. Without going back to

Annals, nor even to the anti- and post-colonial positions of the 1950s, on

It should be noted that the journal Quaderni Storici was founded as early as 1966 and that "global" and/or "world" history has seen significant development in the United States; a "planetary" history of architecture seems conceivable on these foundations, which are even more widely shared in British and American literature today than in France.