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	Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture Author: Adrian Forty Publisher: Thames and Hudson Year: 2004 ISBN 0500284709
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This book investigate the language of modernism, language and drawing, ‘masculine and feminine’ architecture, language metaphors, science in architecture and the social properties of architecture. A vocabulary of key words such as "character," "form," "history," and "space," locates each word’s modern meaning within a historical and theoretical framework, and clearly sets out its development and relevance for architects, historians, philosophers, critics and the users of buildings themselves. Words and Buildings is the first thorough examination of the complex relationship between architecture and language as intricate social practices. 336 pages with 216 illustrations.

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