Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture

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. 216 illustrations

Arts & Photography

Adrian Forty

Architecture

Thames&Hudson

Features essays by the architectural historian Pier Vittorio Aureli on Ludwig Hilberseimer, the editor Pamela Johnston on the birds and the bees, the fashion historian Caroline Evans on models and mannequins, the landscape historian Alessandra Ponte on the idea of the north and scholar Adrian Forty in conversation with architect John Winter.

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Pier Vittorio Aureli

John Winter

CAROLINE EVANS

Alessandra Ponte

Architectural Association Publications

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