Architectural history research - a plea for "place-making"

In detailing the story of art historians "hijacking' architectural history, Spiro Kostof (1985) points out that in the days gone by, architects themselves studied and wrote architectural history. Modern movement and its outright rejection of historical precedents paved the way for others to step in and interpret architectural history, primarily in terms of its "artistic'' aspects. Art Historians, Kostof says, being primarily interested in objects (paintings, sculpture, etc.) reduced architectural history to a linear progression of "styles," grossly neglecting the fact that architecture is about space.