Customer Review: ISBN: 0671206923 and ISBN: 0500580049 ONLY! This mostly black & white - and comprising almost exclusively of 98 illustrations - survey of 16 major works from 1929 to 1964 on only 136 pages hardcover 10.25" x 8" (26 cm x 20 cm) was published in English in 1970 by Simon & Schuster in US... more info
Customer Review: This book is an early assessment and overview of Fuller's design work taken as a whole. The author, Martin Pawley, knew Fuller but was not an acolyte; his treatment of Fuller is fair but critical. At the beginning of the book Pawley relates a not so friendly encounter which shows Fuller's known... more info
Customer Review: Pawley's respectful continuation of Reynard Banham's Theory and Design in the First Machine Age is a book that is above all, honest. Pawley traces the influence of machine-design upon architecture: he praises the successes (post-war housing production, improved efficiency in building construction),... more info
Customer Review: Sir Norman Foster is one of the few architects who acts in what he believes. The book is a great collection of his amazing feats in architecture.
This thesis, Terminal Architecture by Martin Pawley, supports the trend in architecture towards "formlessness" as a post-postmodern cultural expression. Formlessness denies material and structure while embracing landscape and activity. Pawley begins a discourse on what "terminal landscapes"... more info
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