Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture

Published by Thames & Hudson, 2004, softcover, illustrated, index, 336 pages, 19.7 cms x 24.7 cms, apart from very slight crease to front cover, condition: as new.

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 mortarthey 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

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