Architecture Words # 1
2011
ture Words is a series of texts and important
essays on architecture written by architects, critics
and scholars. Like many aspects of everyday life
contemporary architectural culture is dominated by an
endless production and consumption of images, graphics
and information. Rather than mirror this larger force,
this series of small books seeks to deflect it by means
of direct language, concise editing and beautiful, legible
graphic design. Each volume in the series offers the reader
texts that distil important larger issues and problems.
The words are edited and the pages designed in a way
that acknowledges the ability of graphic and printed
forms to communicate architectural ideas; not only the
ideas contained within each volume, but also the enduring
power of written ideas more generally to challenge and
change the way all architects think.
Brett Steele
Director, AA School and AA Publications
WORDS
Denise Scott Brown
ISBN 978-1-902902-70-8
Architectural Association
aaschool.ac.uk/publications
9 781902 90270 8
Architectural Association London
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