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

Main entry:

Forty, Adrian, 1948-

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Thames & Hudson, 2000.

Description:

335 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-325) and index.

Summary:

"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 original and thoughtful study provides the first thorough examination of the relationship between architecture and language as complex social practices."
"The book is divided into two parts. The first section consists of six rigorously argued chapters that investigate the language of modernism, language and drawing, 'masculine and feminine' architecture, language metaphors, science in architecture, and the social properties of architecture. The second part is a vocabulary of key words, providing rich analyses of critical terms such as Character, Form, History and Space.
Each investigation locates a word's modern meaning within a historical framework and theoretical discussion, setting out clearly the term's development and its purpose for architects, historians, philosophers, critics and the 'users' of buildings themselves."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0500341729
9780500341728

Subject:

Architecture Language.
Modern movement (Architecture)
Architecture Philosophy.
Architecture Historiography.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture)
Architecture Historiographie.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room 212200
Call No.: NA2543.L3 F6 2000
Status: Available

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