The graphic movement of narrative time and the diverse design of content positioned by the authors

Abstract

An extensive study of seven architecture history books published in the 20th century produced dozens of graphics and analyses regarding the movement of chronological time as a structuring element of the past. Although only a portion of these studies is presented in this article, the sample provided is sufficient to demonstrate the different ways in which each author constructs the positioning of dated events and the continuity of historical events. Each author interprets the facts according to a peculiar arrangement, even though that past may be conventionally represented in a seemingly impersonal narrative linguistic structure, and although hidden by the convention of written language, each author appears in their own narrative construction. This can be observed in the comparison of the different drawings present in the graphics and
analyses presented here, which allow us to verify how each historical narrative differs, and in fact almost never appears as a supposed linear and unambiguous interpretation of the facts.