How architecture got its hump /
Sometimes seamless, sometimes awkward like the hump acquired by the camel in one of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, these disciplines have had their own responsibilities and excesses grafted onto architecture, just as architecture has tried to shake off their limitations." "Taking...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. ; London :
MIT Press,
©2001.
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| Series: | Preston Thomas memorial series in architecture.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=61104 |
| Summary: | Sometimes seamless, sometimes awkward like the hump acquired by the camel in one of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, these disciplines have had their own responsibilities and excesses grafted onto architecture, just as architecture has tried to shake off their limitations." "Taking interference a step further, Connah also considers the implications of philosophical incongruity and architectural nest. He asks how architecture loses its head, transcends the dead language it now entraps, and houses meanings it wants to contest. Hardly bleak questions, suggests Connah, for they point to ways for architecture to rescue itself."--Jacket |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 209 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585386803 9780585386805 0262287285 9780262287289 9780585386803 0262531887 |