TY  - BOOK
AU  - MacDonald,Angus J.
TI  -  High tech architecture : : a style reconsidered / 
SN  - 9781785006456
U1  - 724.6 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Marlborough, Wiltshire
PB  - The Crowood Press Ltd, 
KW  - Architecture, Modern
KW  - 20th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index.; 
Intro; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter One: The origins of the High Tech style; Chapter Two: Early developments: The beginnings of High Tech; Chapter Three: Establishing the style: The significant projects of the 1970s; Chapter Four: The mature phase: The architecture of corporate finance; Chapter Five: Is there such a thing as 'real' High Tech?; Chapter Six: Stylistic High Tech: A wrong turn on the way to tomorrow?; Selected bibliography; Notes; Index
N2  - High Tech - sometimes known as Structural Expression - is a style of Modern architecture that produced some of the most prominent and visually exciting buildings of the twentieth century. The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation headquarters in Hong Kong, the Lloyd's of London headquarters in London, UK, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France. Extensively illustrated with photographs and diagrams, and accessibly written, High Tech Architecture - A style reconsidered discusses the intended meanings of the visual vocabulary involved in High Tech, and places the style in the broad context of other Modern architecture of the twentieth century. The book offers a balanced re-appraisal of the extravagant claims that have been made for High Tech, by its progenitors and architectural critics, as an architecture appropriate for the built environment of the future.
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