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Adrian Forty is Professor of Architectural History at The Bartlett, the Faculty of the Built Environment at University College London. He is the Programme Director of the MSc programme in Architectural History.

In 2003, he was awarded the Sir Misha Black Award for Innovation in Design Education.

Forty's main interest is in architecture's role in societies and cultural contexts. His research includes work on the design of consumer goods; on language and architecture; and on architecture, collective memory, and forgetting. As of lately, he is concerned with the history, aesthetics, and cultural significance of concrete as a construction material. ...more

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	Objects of Desire: Design and Society Since 1750 4.19 avg rating — 303 ratings — published 1986 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture 4.31 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2000 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Concrete and Culture: A Material History 4.13 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Art of Forgetting (Materializing Culture by Adrian Forty (Editor), Susanne Küchler (Editor) 3.43 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	'Primitivo'. La palabra y el concepto / Descripción de arquitectura ¿Realidad o ficción? 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	欲望のオブジェ―デザインと社会1750年以後 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Objects of Desire: Design & Society from Wedgewood to IBM 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture by Adrian Forty (1-Mar-2004) Paperback by Adrian Forty, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“We talk as a matter of course about ‘reading’ a plan […] but to talk of ‘reading’ a plan is a very long way from claiming that a work of architecture is a linguistic sign.”
― Adrian Forty, Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture

tags: linguistics

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“Within orthodox modernism, works of architecture were not there o be ‘read’ as narratives to external events – they were there to be themselves.”
― Adrian Forty, Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture

tags: events

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“Although, as has been suggested, part of the attraction of these metaphors may have lain in their making architecture seem like science, and so amenable to scientific procedures of analysis, what they really do is – paradoxically – to confirm the opposite, that architecture is not a science, indeed is not particularly like a science.”
― Adrian Forty, Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture

tags: science

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