This original and thoughtful study provides the first thorough examination of the relationship between architecture and language as complex social practices.

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 groundbreaking book is the first thorough examination of the complex relationship between architecture and language as intricate social practices.

Six rigorously argued chapters and a vocabulary of key terms investigate the language of modernism; language and drawing; “masculine and feminine” architecture; language metaphors; science in architecture; and the social properties of architecture.

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“A riveting, immensely readable account of how words used freely in architectural discourse . . . have changed their meaning and acquired new significance over the past century.” (LA Architect)

作者简介

Adrian Forty is Professor of Architectural History at the Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, University College, London.

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this book divides the history of modern architecture into chapters, each chapter is titled with a design term, simple, contxt, history and so on, it is very helpful for researchers and it was helpful especially for me......

Extremely precise, Adrian Forty gives uas a very well conducted guide to a better comprehension on recent architectural theory. Indispensible.

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