Adrian Forty

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Adrian Forty (born 7 March 1948, Oxford, England) is an Emeritus Professor of Architectural History at The Bartlett, the Faculty of the Built Environment at University College London. He is also the former Programme Director of the master's programme in Architectural History. [1]

Oxford City and non-metropolitan district in England

Oxford is a university city in Oxfordshire, England, with a population of 155,000. It is 51 miles (82 km) northwest of London, 57 miles (92 km) from Birmingham and 30 miles (48 km) from Reading.

The Bartlett

The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment is the Faculty of the Built Environment of University College London (UCL), part of the University of London in England. It is home to the Bartlett School of Architecture and The Bartlett School of Planning, two of the leading architecture and urban planning schools in the world. The Bartlett is ranked first in the world in Architecture / Built Environment in the 2019 QS World University Rankings by Subject.

University College London, which has operated under the official name of UCL since 2005, is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom. It is a member institution of the federal University of London, and is the third largest university in the United Kingdom by total enrolment, and the largest by postgraduate enrolment.

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Forty's main interest is in architecture's role in societies and cultural contexts. His research includes work on the design of consumer goods; on language and architecture; and on architecture, collective memory, and forgetting. As of lately, he is concerned with the history, aesthetics, and cultural significance of concrete as a construction material.[ citation needed ]

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Concrete Composite construction material

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In 2003, Forty was awarded the Sir Misha Black Award for Innovation in Design Education. [1]

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Select list of Forty's writings

Adrian Forty has written the following books: [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Adrian Forty". Thames & Hudson . Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  2. ↑ "Adrian Forty". Amazon.co.uk . Retrieved 28 January 2019.

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