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Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture
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Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture Paperback - 2004

by Adrian Forty

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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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  • Title Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture
  • Author Adrian Forty
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First edition
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Thames & Hudson, London
  • Publication date May 2004
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780500284704 / 0500284709
  • Weight 2.82 lbs (1.28 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.7 x 7.9 x 1.1 in (24.64 x 20.07 x 2.79 cm)
  • Category Architecture
  • Dewey Decimal Code 724.607

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