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Article: Modern Architecture through Case Studies. (Case Study Approach).
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- November 1, 2002
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By Peter Blundell Jones. Oxford: Architectural Press. 2002. [pounds sterling]35
Peter Blundell Jones has compiled a first rate selection of detailed case studies of modern architecture which should really he required reading for every student. Much of this material has appeared in similar form before, largely in The Architects' Journal although also in the AR and elsewhere, and the subjects are 16 well-known projects which young architects today should know at least as well as their predecessors two hundred years ago knew their temples and their theatres, or the Goths of the nineteenth century intimately knew their cathedrals.
Following a general ...