The Sprinboard in the Pond

By Simon Allford 1999-02-01T00:00:00

This book sets out the cultural, architectural, philosophical and social history of the swimming pool. Lightly peppered with anecdotes, it was the perfect book to review over Christmas. For while the pool might inspire an architecture of fantasy and pleasure, it must, paradoxically, house what is in essence a caustic, ...

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