Infrastructure as Processional Space (bldgblog.blogspot.com)

The literary allusion is to Spiro Kostof's A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals [1]. It's the more modern "standard" architectural history textbook. Fletcher's History of Architecture is the more traditional [and less literary] textbook.

[1]: http://books.google.com/books/about/A_history_of_architectur...