Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture - Couverture rigide

Forty, Adrian

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0500341729 ISBN 13 : 9780500341728

Editeur : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Available again, a wholly original study of the complex relationship between architecture and language that has changed and enriched the way we think and talk about architecture.The words we use when we talk and write about architecture describe more than just bricks and mortar they direct the ways we think of and live with buildings. This groundbreaking book is the first thorough examination of the complex relationship between architecture and language as intricate social practices. Six rigorously argued chapters investigate the language of modernism, language and drawing, masculine and feminine architecture, language metaphors, science in architecture, and the social properties of architecture. There follows a vocabulary of key words such as Character, Form, History and Space, locating each words modern meaning within an historical and theoretical framework, and setting out clearly its development and relevance for architects, historians, philosophers, critics and the users of the buildings themselves. Architects should be made to read Words and Buildings Architecture Today Unusually clear and accessible Students of all kinds will love this book The Architectural Review A forceful, clear and sophisticated exposition of the role of conceptual thought in architectural discourse The Architects Journal

Revue de presse

A major book ... rich with historical reference, drawings, diagrams and photographs. --Art & Architecture Journal

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0500341729
• ISBN 13: 9780500341728
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 336