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

By: Forty, Adrian, 1948-.
Publisher: London : Thames & Hudson, 2000Description: 335 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0500341729.Subject(s): Architecture and philosophy | Architecture -- Terminology | Language and cultureDDC classification: 720.108
Contents:
Acknowledgments. - Preface. - Pt. one. 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. two. Character. Context. Design. Flexibility. Form. Formal. Function. History. Memory. Nature. Order. Simple. Space. Structure. Transparency. Truth. Type. User. - Bibliography. - List of illustration. - Index.
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 720.108 FOR (Browse shelf) 1 Available SABDx,23002,03,AD 5000035388

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments. - Preface. - Pt. one. 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. two. Character. Context. Design. Flexibility. Form. Formal. Function. History. Memory. Nature. Order. Simple. Space. Structure. Transparency. Truth. Type. User. - Bibliography. - List of illustration. - Index.