Title Words and buildings : a vocabulary of modern architecture / Adrian Forty

Published New York : Thames & Hudson, [2000] ©2000

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Description 335 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Contents Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Pt. 1. Introduction ; 1. The language of modernism ; 2. Language and drawing ; 3. On difference: masculine and feminine ; 4. Language metaphors ; 5. 'Spatial mechanics' - scientific metaphors ; 6. 'Dead or alive' - describing 'the social' -- Pt. 2. Character ; Context ; Design ; Flexibility ; Form ; Formal ; Function ; History ; Memory ; Nature ; Order ; Simple ; Space ; Structure ; Transparency ; Truth ; Type ; User -- Bibliography -- List of illustrations -- Index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-325) and index Subject Architecture -- Language. Architecture -- Terminology. Language and culture. Modern movement (Architecture) Architecture -- Philosophy. Architecture -- Historiography. LC no. 99070945 ISBN 0500341729

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