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Author Richards, Simon, 1973-

Title Architect knows best : environmental determinism in architecture culture from 1956 to the present / by Simon Richards
Published Burlington : Ashgate Publishing Company, [2012]
©2012
©2012

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Description pages cm
Series Ashgate studies in architecture
Ashgate studies in architecture series.
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1.The More Things Change -- 2.Communitites of Sadness and Self-Reliance -- 3.Communities of Contentment -- 4.Natural History -- 5.Misremembered Cities -- 6.Genius Loci and Embodiment -- 7.Language and Dislocation
Summary The idea that buildings could be used to reform human behaviour and improve society was fundamental to the 'modern' movement in architecture and planning. However, as these approaches cam under attack from the 1950s onwards, it was thought that the environmental determinist strand of the architectural discourse had been killed off
Analysis History of architecture & styles
Link edfmn
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [159]-174) and index
Subject Architecture and society.
Architecture -- Political aspects.
LC no. 2011049376
ISBN 9781409439226 (hardback : alk. paper)
(ebook)