Adrian Forty

Adrian Forty

Adrian Forty is Professor of Architectural History at The Bartlett, the Faculty of the Built Environment at University College London. He is the Programme Director of the MSc programme in Architectural History.

In 2003, he was awarded the Sir Misha Black Award for Innovation in Design Eduacation.

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.

Select list of Forty's writings

*"Objects of Desire: Design and Society since 1750", London: Thames and Hudson 1986.
*"The Art of Forgetting", ed., with Susanne Küchler, Oxford: Berg 1999.
*"Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture", London: Thames and Hudson 2000.
*"Brazil's Modern Architecture", with Elisabetta Andreoli, London: Phaidon 2004.

External links

* [http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/people/A_forty_adrian.htm The Bartlett faculty page]
* [http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/research/architecture/profiles/Forty.htm Another faculty page]
* [http://eng.archinform.net/arch/11583.htm Bibliography at archINFORM]


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