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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
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The Pattern of English Building
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Death in a Strange Country
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Architecture's Historical Turn
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City of Quartz
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S,M,L,XL
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The City of Tomorrow: Sensors, Networks, Hackers and the Future of Urban Life
by Carlo Ratti & Matthew Claudel