Architecture as Material Culture: The work of Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp

摘要

My father, a paid-up curmudgeon and relentless reader, used to grumble that no-one should write a book unless they had something - by which he meant something new - to say. My mother, a woman of letters, would add sotto voce, "and they can say it well." Having something to say and saying it well remain, for me, the signal criteria. If only more books on architecture did either.