![]() ![]() the Centraal Beheer building in Alpendoorn, Netherlands. The book investigates some of the classics of modern architecture, but also discusses buildings that aren't well described in the standard books, e.g. While Colquhoun's arguments are not always so easy to understand in general, whenever he discusses specific buildings, it's clear to see what he's driving at. ![]() ![]() This book is a wonderful introduction to architectural criticism, more lively than Colin Rowe's "The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays" and Reyner Banham's "Theory and Design in the First Machine Age." Colquhoun applies all sorts of funky terminology borrowed from and in some cases anticipating literary theory (e.g., a term like "bricolage," which is bandied about by Homi Bhabha, is used in this book, published in the mid 80s, to describe Michael Graves's work). ![]()
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