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An unsugared pill

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

William Fawcett
William Fawcett
Affiliation:
An architect, is a Director of Cambridge Architectural Research Ltd
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Extract

The controversial book Design by Competition by Jack L. Nasar (1999) is a challenge to designers (it must qualify as controversial after the stinking review in arq 3/4). It's a tacky production - banal cover, messy text layout, photos taken without a perspective control lens - and it also claims to speak for the people in a crusade against ‘high architecture’. Clearly, neither form nor content is calculated to stimulate enthusiasm in the architectural community.

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Insight
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arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , March 2000 , pp. 94 - 96
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2000

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