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Words and Buildings
This chapter explores possible relationships of words to buildings. Initially, the author greatly underestimated that difficulty of matching words to buildings and could not possibly match his tutor Summerson's fluency. Nearly 20 years later, in 2000, the same tutor who had set that task published Words and Buildings. It is a crucial book, not because it was the first publication to look at the territory – Ben Jonson and Inigo Jones had a fair old spat about the relationship between words and architecture when they devised court masques in the 17th century – but because it was systematic as well as being even‐handed in its sensitivity to the peculiarities of language and those of architecture. On top of that, it gave an unusually powerful insight into that much noted but rarely analysed characteristic of the architectural world in the post‐World War II period: its curious resistance to outside interference, commentary or criticism.
Words and Buildings
This chapter explores possible relationships of words to buildings. Initially, the author greatly underestimated that difficulty of matching words to buildings and could not possibly match his tutor Summerson's fluency. Nearly 20 years later, in 2000, the same tutor who had set that task published Words and Buildings. It is a crucial book, not because it was the first publication to look at the territory – Ben Jonson and Inigo Jones had a fair old spat about the relationship between words and architecture when they devised court masques in the 17th century – but because it was systematic as well as being even‐handed in its sensitivity to the peculiarities of language and those of architecture. On top of that, it gave an unusually powerful insight into that much noted but rarely analysed characteristic of the architectural world in the post‐World War II period: its curious resistance to outside interference, commentary or criticism.
Words and Buildings
Borden, Iain (editor) / Fraser, Murray (editor) / Penner, Barbara (editor) / Melvin, Jeremy (author)
Forty Ways To Think About Architecture ; 134-139
2015-03-24
6 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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