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“What Adrian Forty, a brilliant contemporary architectural historian, is trying to write here is what he calls the history of concrete as a medium of culture. Forty’s book is interesting, and I think crucial because it allows us to approach the aesthetic question from a different angle, through material and the material expression of architecture.” Read more...
The best books on Architecture and Aesthetics
Timothy Hyde, Architects & Architectural Historian
Our most recommended books
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The Stones of Venice
by John Ruskin -
Scheming: A Social History of Glasgow Council Housing, 1919-1956
by Sean Damer -
Scotland's Homes Fit for Heroes: Garden City Influences on the Development of Scottish Working Class Housing 1900 to 1939
by Lou Rosenburg -
State Housing in Britain
by Stephen Merrett -
Non-Traditional Houses: Identifying Non-Traditional Houses in the UK 1918-75
by Harry Harrison -
City of Bits: Space, Place and the Infobahn
by William J. Mitchell
