The Theory of Architecture: Concepts, Themes & PracticesThis jargon-free guide to design and architecture theory helps professionals engage in the discourse of where and what architecture is, and has been. |
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... Harry Seidler . Seidler has achieved a symbiosis between natural forces and the systemics of building of the kind suggested above and , like his mentor Marcel Breuer , found not only a kindred spirit in engineer Pier Luigi Nervi , but ...
... Harry Seidler . Seidler has achieved a symbiosis between natural forces and the systemics of building of the kind suggested above and , like his mentor Marcel Breuer , found not only a kindred spirit in engineer Pier Luigi Nervi , but ...
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... Harry Seidler . Despite a lifetime rightly decrying esthetic dictatorship by bureaucrats , Seidler berates much recent Western architecture as “ re - heated , fake history " and " superficial images with hideous clichés , " giving the ...
... Harry Seidler . Despite a lifetime rightly decrying esthetic dictatorship by bureaucrats , Seidler berates much recent Western architecture as “ re - heated , fake history " and " superficial images with hideous clichés , " giving the ...
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... Harry Seidler , trained at Harvard under Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer , thwarted a local council decision against his design for a house by having the then Minister for Housing sponsor it as a ' demonstration ' home . Recalling the ...
... Harry Seidler , trained at Harvard under Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer , thwarted a local council decision against his design for a house by having the then Minister for Housing sponsor it as a ' demonstration ' home . Recalling the ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Chapter 1 | 25 |
B Social Aspects of Theory | 50 |
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