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A Response to Words and Buildings
This chapter is a response to Adrian's Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture, which made the author keenly aware of how differently writers and designers use words, concepts and arguments. The author believes it is a very great form of verbal and non‐verbal knowledge and a state of being from which to produce things in the material world – design's natural habitat – that are culturally innovative and other people can use and enjoy. Equally, he believes in architectural writing, particularly that of Adrian Forty, Alan Colquhoun and Robin Evans, writers with careful, well‐founded styles of thought, who feel ideas very keenly while acknowledging their hypothetical nature, and who above all are conscious that writing should have a productive relationship with design. This chapter finishes by returning to modernism, the locus of Words and Buildings, and its relation to the ideas and values of the present time.
A Response to Words and Buildings
This chapter is a response to Adrian's Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture, which made the author keenly aware of how differently writers and designers use words, concepts and arguments. The author believes it is a very great form of verbal and non‐verbal knowledge and a state of being from which to produce things in the material world – design's natural habitat – that are culturally innovative and other people can use and enjoy. Equally, he believes in architectural writing, particularly that of Adrian Forty, Alan Colquhoun and Robin Evans, writers with careful, well‐founded styles of thought, who feel ideas very keenly while acknowledging their hypothetical nature, and who above all are conscious that writing should have a productive relationship with design. This chapter finishes by returning to modernism, the locus of Words and Buildings, and its relation to the ideas and values of the present time.
A Response to Words and Buildings
Borden, Iain (editor) / Fraser, Murray (editor) / Penner, Barbara (editor) / Fretton, Tony (author)
Forty Ways To Think About Architecture ; 243-248
2015-03-24
6 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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