| Description |
96 pages : illustrations (some color), plans (some color) ; 29cm |
| Contents |
Architecture meets Pluralism. Architecture expressing freedoms rather than equalities. Architecture, ecology and global economics. Professionalism, ethics and morality -- The Mediatisation of Architecture. The influence of the architectural press: pre-empting experience. Exploiting the press: cheap publishing and propaganda. The inevitability of individualisation and architectural heroes. Smokescreens, populism and the avant-garde -- Change. Change in the rate of change. Directions of change -- Collaboration. Barriers - professional. How we collaborate. Collaborating. Limits of democracy: convergence out of necessity. Learning from Limehouse community -- Nature and Proportion. Chaos and complexity. Geometry, hierarchy and scale -- Art. Preconcepts. Essence. Concepts -- Science and Technology. Scientific understanding. Numbers. Materials. Light. The wonder of glass - transparency -- Human Purpose. Architecture and economics. Compliance, conflict and reason |
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The known and unknown user -- Function. Form follows desire. More from less. Use and beauty -- Construction. Triangle of confidence. Skills. Nuts and bolts. Relationships and reality with industry -- Authenticity in Architecture. Head, heart and hands. Art, science and construction for human purpose -- eg, Herne-Sodingen Academy, Germany |
| Analysis |
Architecture Modernism |
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Architecture Modernism |
| Subject |
Ian Ritchie Architects (Firm)
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Architectural practice.
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Architecture, Modern -- 20th century.
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| LC no. |
95115304 |
| ISBN |
185490292X |
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1854902946 |
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