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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 Four Books on Architecture (I quattro libri dell'architettura)
by Andrea Palladio -
Scheming: A Social History of Glasgow Council Housing, 1919-1956
by Sean Damer -
The Culture of Food
by Massimo Montanari -
Post-Modern Buildings in Britain
by Elain Harwood & Geraint Franklin -
Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism
by Rudolf Wittkower -
Imagined Communities
by Benedict Anderson