Language lessons

By Adrian Forty 2000-04-01T00:00:00

In Words and Buildings, out this month, architectural historian Adrian Forty looks at architecture's troubled relationship with language and analyses some of the fuzziest words in the critical vocabulary of modern architecture. Here, Forty explains why he wrote the book.

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