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Humor, Architecture, History, Architecture, history, AnecdotesEdition | Availability |
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A history of architecture on the disparative method: with apologies to Sir Banister Fletcher (all eighteen editions)
1974, Van Nostrand Reinhold
in English
0442295448 9780442295448
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First Sentence
"This guide to the technique of reading between the lines of nonsensical texts is dedicated to lively young minds oppressed by dead scholarship."
Table of Contents
Preface
Survival Through Desing
Prehistoric Architecture
The Egyptians
Memphite Period or Old Kingdom
Rock-Cut Tombs
The Architect
Later Forms
The Peristyle
The Obelisk
Dwellings
The Romans
The House
The Temple
Arched Construction
The Architect
Columnar Systems
The Vault
Early Christian Architecture
Renaissance
Modern Architecture
The Nodule on the Module
The Art of War
Richard the Lionhearted Architect as a Knight of the Garter
Some Modest Proposals for the Redesign of Man
Contaminated Man
Modular Man
Titillating Evolution
Plastic, or Silly Putty, Man
Ugliness Makes America Great
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