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100			_aForty, Adrian _96623
245			_aWords and buildings : _ba vocabulary of modern architecture / _cAdrian Forty
260			_bThames & Hudson, _c2016. _aLondon :
300			_a335 p.
500			_aThis exploration of the relationship between architecture and language examines both as complex social practices. Six rigorously argued chapters investigate the language of modernism, language and drawing, masculine and feminine architecture, language metaphors, science in architecture, and the social properties of architecture.
505			_aPreface -- Pt. 1. 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. 2. Character -- Context -- Design -- Flexibility -- Form -- Formal -- Function -- History -- Memory -- Nature -- Order -- Simple -- Space -- Structure -- Transparency -- Truth -- Type -- User -- Bibliography -- List of illustrations -- Index
520			_aThe 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.
650			_aAR _913006
690			_aArchitecture. _913007
690			_a Architecture and philosophy _924790
690			_aArchitecture _xTerminology _925613
690			_aLanguage and culture. _913008
690			_aModern movement (Architecture). _913009
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