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Book SynopsisHow do we create the new from the old?
The Architecture of Influence explores this fundamental question by analysing a broad swath of twentieth-century architectural works - including some of the best-known examples of the architectural canon, modern and postmodern - through the lens of influence.
Trade Review“Amanda Lawrence’s new book is most definitely original--not in the architecture it studies, but in its approach to these designs. Taking on what is generally regarded as the fraught subject of influence in architecture, Lawrence helps us see mostly familiar projects in an entirely new way, framing its impact as a two-way street: as architects borrow from the past, they also transform our understanding of that past. She lays out this argument deftly and with admirable step-by-step clarity in the introduction and then delivers her supporting evidence in the chapters that follow, each of them exploring and defining a distinct tactic in architecture’s use of its history.” - Gabrielle Esperdy, New Jersey Institute of Technology, author of
American Autopia: An Intellectual History of the American Roadside at Midcentury
