Forty Ways to Think about Architecture : Architectural History and Theory Today.

Intro -- Forty Ways To Think About Architecture -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 'FUTURE IMPERFECT' -- EXPANDING THE FIELD -- EVERYDAY AND EMPIRICAL, STRUCTURAL AND SOCIAL -- Notes -- Future Imperfect -- CHAPTER 1 How To Write About Buildings? -- Notes -- CHAPTER 2 Pevsner vs Colomina: Word and Image on the Page -- Notes -- CHAPTER 3 Smooth and Rough: Tactile Brutalism -- Notes -- CHAPTER 4 Homely Affinities -- Notes -- CHAPTER 5 On Regeneration -- Notes -- CHAPTER 6 Fresh Reactions to St Paul's Cathedral -- Notes -- CHAPTER 7 Photographs and Buildings (mainly) -- FILING CABINET -- TATTOO -- HOME -- CONCRETE -- PHOTOGENIA -- Notes -- CHAPTER 8 Stirling's Voice: A Detailed Suggestion -- Notes -- CHAPTER 9 Carte Blanche? -- Notes -- CHAPTER 10 Buildings: A Reader's Guide -- Notes -- CHAPTER 11 The City and the Event: Disturbing, Forgetting and Escaping Memory -- Note -- CHAPTER 12 The Most Modern Material Of Them All … -- Notes -- CHAPTER 13 `Things that People Cannot Anticipate': Skateboarding at the Southbank Centre -- Notes -- CHAPTER 14 `Truth, Love, Life': Building with Language in Prague Castle under Masaryk -- Notes -- CHAPTER 15 Le Corbusier: Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics -- Notes -- CHAPTER 16 During Breakfast -- Notes -- CHAPTER 17 [American] Objects of [Soviet] Desire -- Notes -- CHAPTER 18 Words and Buildings -- Notes -- CHAPTER 19 Slow Hard Look -- Note -- CHAPTER 20 Topography, Biography and Architecture -- Notes -- CHAPTER 21 Of Character and Concrete: The Historian's Material -- Notes -- CHAPTER 22 Spectres of Marx in City X -- COMMODITY -- LABOUR -- TECHNOLOGY -- CAPITAL -- CRISIS -- Notes -- CHAPTER 23 History by Design -- FACTUAL HISTORIES -- FACTUAL FICTIONS -- DESIGN HISTORIES -- CREATIVE MYTHS -- Notes -- CHAPTER 24 Angel Place: A Way In to Dickens's London -- Notes.

CHAPTER 25 On 'Sachlichkeit': Some Additional Remarks on an Anglo-German Encounter -- Notes -- CHAPTER 26 Double Vision -- Notes -- CHAPTER 27 Modernism -- Notes -- CHAPTER 28 Yes, And We Have No Dentists -- Notes -- CHAPTER 29 Reyner Banham's Hat -- Notes -- CHAPTER 30 Situated Architectural Historical Ecologies -- TECHNICAL ETHICS OF CARE -- Notes -- CHAPTER 31 Objects -- Notes -- CHAPTER 32 Richard Llewelyn Davies, 1912-1981: A Lost Vision for The Bartlett -- Notes -- CHAPTER 33 Things Ungrand -- CHAPTER 34 'Minor' Spaces in Officers' Bungalows of Colonial Bengal -- COUNTRY LIVING AND BEING SERVED -- SPACES FOR FOOD AND COOKERY -- SPACES OF BODILY RITUAL -- ANCILLARY SPACES -- FURNITURE AND PROVINCIAL TRANSIENCE -- Notes -- CHAPTER 35 Memoirs of Adrian -- Notes -- CHAPTER 36 All That Glitters -- Note -- CHAPTER 37 A Response to Words and Buildings -- LANGUAGE AND DRAWING -- DESCRIBING THE SOCIAL -- FUNCTION -- TRUTH -- NATURE -- USER -- CHAPTER 38 Material Culture: `Manchester of the East', Le Corbusier, Eames and Indian Jeans -- Notes -- CHAPTER 39 Mr Mumford's Neighbourhood -- Notes -- CHAPTER 40 Banyan Tree and Migrant Cities: Some Provisional Thoughts for a Strategic Postcolonial Cosmopolitanism -- MIGRANT CITIES -- BORROWED TIME AND PLACE -- THE DISCONTENT OF MIGRANT CITIES -- STRATEGIC POSTCOLONIAL COSMOPOLITANISM AND ENCOUNTERING THE OTHER -- MIGRANT CITIES AND THEIR ARCHITECTURE AS A POSITIVE FORCE -- ARRIVING -- Notes -- Author Biographies -- Index -- Photo Credits -- EULA.

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