The rise of architectural history and theory during the 1980s in North American schools of architecture was driven by a number of salient factors. First and foremost was the disillusionment with modernist architecture that emerged in the 1950s and 1960s with a plethora of movements that sought to reconnect with the history and theory of architecture, groups including Team 10, Italian Neo-Rationalism, and American Postmodern Classicism. Architects from these movements such as Alison and Peter Smithson, Aldo Rossi, and Robert Venturi each produced books that advocated the study of historical precedents as a way of repairing a perceived break with the past.
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