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On Arrows: Essays in British Architecture and Its Environments

• MIT Press • ISBN 9780262548991

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On Arrows: Essays in British Architecture and Its Environments

• MIT Press • ISBN-13 9780262548991

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ISBN 9780262548991 • Completeness 48

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A series of original essays on the history of British postwar architecture through the concept of performance—and the ubiquitous (but elusive) image of the arrow. In the 1950s, the figure of the arrow had a strange kind of ubiquity in architectural drawings, publications, and advertisements, symbolizing everything from the circulation of cold and warm air in a kitchen fridge to the flow of traffic in assorted New Towns.

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Publisher: MIT Press

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Contributor: following this pervasive yet relatively unnoticed figure within the history of British architectureMovement: Modernism

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Category: Architectural HistoryCategory: Architectural TheoryCategory: Graphic DesignCategory: Postwar ArchitectureCategory: Visual CommunicationCategory: Graphic Design HistoryCategory: Visual CultureCategory: Architectural Semiotics

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