On Arrows
Essays in British Architecture and Its Environments
$95.00
- Hardcover
192 pages
- Release Date
25 February 2025
Summary
A series of original essays on the history of British postwar architecture through the concept of performance and the ubiquitous (but elusive) image of the arrow.
In the 1950s, the figure of the arrow had a strange kind of ubiquity in architectural drawings, publications, and advertisements, symbolizing everything from the circulation of cold and warm air in a kitchen fridge to the flow of traffic in assorted New Towns. Twenty-five years earlier there were barely any arrows within arc…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262548991 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262548992 |
| Author: | Laurent Stalder |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 25 February 2025 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 292mm x 241mm |
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“A lucid and welcome addition to writing on postwar architecture.”
—e-flux Criticism
About The Author
Laurent Stalder
Laurent Stalder is Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, where his teaching and research focus on the intersection of technology with nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first-century architecture.
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