Forty, Adrian

Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture - London Thames and Hudson 2000 - 336p.

Acknowledgments p.6, Preface p.7, Part One: Introduction p.10, 1. The Language of Modernism p.18, 2. Language and Drawing p.28, 3. On Difference: Masculine and Feminine p.42, 4. Language Metaphors p.62, 5. 'Spatial Mechanics' - Scientific Metaphors p.86, 6. 'Dead or Alive' - Describing 'the Social' p.102, Part Two: Character p.120, Context p.132, Design p.136, Flexibility p.142, Form p.149, Formal p.173, Function p.174, History p.196, Memory p.206, Nature p.220, Order p.240, Simple p.249, Space p.256, Structure p.276, Transparency p.286, Truth p.289, Type p.304, User p.312, Bibliography p.318, List of Illustrations p.326, Index p.330

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