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Design as materials research: building a cathedral to last 500 years

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2004

Nicholas W. Roberts
Nicholas W. Roberts
Affiliation:
AIA, Woodbury University, 7500 Glenoaks Boulevard, Burbank, CA 91510-7846, USA, nick.roberts@woodbury.edu
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Abstract

‘A city seventy miles square but rarely seventy years deep apart from a small downtown not yet two centuries old and a few other pockets of ancientry, Los Angeles is instant architecture on an instant townscape.’ (Banham, 1971)

Two opposing attitudes shape the built environment of North America: the myth of transience and the myth of permanence.

Type
Construction
Information
arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 7 , Issue 3-4 , September 2003 , pp. 333 - 351
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© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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