The Words Between the Spaces: Buildings and LanguageUsing language - speaking and understanding it - is a defining ability of human beings, woven into all human activity. It is therefore inevitable that it should be deeply implicated in the design, production and use of buildings. Building legislation, design guides, competition and other briefs, architectural criticism, teaching and scholarly material, and the media all produce their characteristic texts. |
Contents
1 Why Language Matters | 1 |
2 Buildings and their Texts | 16 |
3 Classification | 37 |
4 Power | 59 |
5 Value | 82 |
6 Heritage | 106 |
7 Images | 132 |
Afterword | 155 |
Notes | 160 |
Bibliography | 165 |
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The Words Between the Spaces: Buildings and Language Deborah Cameron,Thomas A. Markus Limited preview - 2003 |
The Words Between the Spaces: Buildings and Language Thomas A. Markus,Deborah Cameron Limited preview - 2002 |
The Words Between the Spaces: Buildings and Language Deborah Cameron,Thomas A. Markus No preview available - 2004 |
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