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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 Culture of Food
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Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing
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Modernity and Ambivalence
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Pseudo-Georgian London
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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