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Fantastic Form: Architecture and Planning Today (Art Reference)
Fantastic Form Architecture and Planning Today - Art Reference Author:Bill Risebero This book follows on from "The Story of Western Architecture" and "Modern Architecture and Design" by offering a detailed examination of the British experience over the last decade. The author critically examines the theory and practice of the Thatcher years: the crisis of modernism, the commercial exploitation of the city, and the political and... more » architectural theories behind it all. He also looks at the signs of hope for the future of our cities - people's growing concern for the environment and the earth's resources, their increasing demands for positive change - and at their architectural implications. As with earlier books, the author places his subject in as wide a context as possible, geographical and historical, relating it to economic theory and political practice, to current trends in town planning, art, education, philosophy and literary theory.« less