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082 _a720.922
_bBOY
100 _aBoyer, M. Christine
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245 _aNot quite architecture : writing around Alison and Peter Smithson
260 _aLondon
_bMIT Press
_c2017
300 _axvi,483p.
505 _aContents Preface ix Acknowledgements xv 1.Compromising modernism: architectural polemics in postwar England 1 2. A history of beginnings: alternate routes for a younger generation of architects 37 3. Thoughts touching everything 75 4. Messages from America 113 5. Fashionable modernity 157 6. Vehicles of desire 195 7. Team 10: keeping the language of modern architecture alive 231 8. Retrospective ruminations 259 9. Landscapes of lyrical appropriateness 293 10. The sensibility primers: revenge of the picturesque 329 11. The fictional Smithsons: autobiographical accounts 359 Notes 397 Index 465
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