| Author(s): |
Robert Maxwell
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| Medium: | journal article |
| Language(s): | English |
| Published in: | arq: Architectural Research Quarterly, March 1999, n. 1, v. 3 |
| Page(s): | 96-98 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s1359135500001846 |
| Abstract: |
When I first went to teach at the Bartlett School of Architecture, Peter Cowan asked me what my research would be. I answered diffidently: ‘meaning in architecture’, and he grinned sceptically, and said: ‘your first job will be to find something to measure’. But I had been seduced by reading Stendhal'sDe l'amourinto believing that measurement wasn't necessary forinsight; and persuaded by reading Wellek and Warren onTheory of Literaturethat theory wasn't to be restricted to physical science. So I was soon giving a course calledMeaning in Architecture, without measuring anything, but using lots of comparisons (twin slide projectors had become all the rage). |
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