Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture
New York: Thames & Hudson, 2000.
First Edition. Hardcover.
The words we use when we talk and write about architecture direct the ways we think of and live with buildings. This study examines the relationship between our perceptions of architecture and the language we use to describe it.
The book is divided into two parts. In the first section of the book, six essays 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 identifies and analyses key terms in the core vocabulary of modern architecture such as Character, Form, History, and Space. Each term is placed in a historical and theoretical context, and traced from its invention to its treatment over time by architects, historians, philosophers, critics, and the people who actually use buildings.
Item #902529ISBN: 0500341729
7-3/4 x 9-7/8" black paper over boards with silver spine titles, bibliography, list of illustrations, index, 216 illustrations.
Abrasion to paper over boards at lower corner where spine meets front board, else very fine in dust wrapper, a clean, crisp, square copy. Dust wrapper in protective mylar.
Price: $150.00