Architecture Depends Condition:Well Read Louis de Montfort

Louis de Montfort

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Architecture Depends Condition:Well Read Louis de MontfortPolemics and reflections on how to bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what architects want it to be. Architecture dependson what? On people, time, politics, ethics, the real world. Architecture, Jeremy Till argues with conviction in this engaging, sometimes pugnacious book, cannot help itself; it is dependent for its very existence on things outside itself. Despite the claims of autonomy, purity, and control that architects like