On Arrows: Essays in British Architecture and Its Environments

by Laurent Stalder

A series of original essays on the history of British postwar architecture through the concept of performance--and the ubiquitous (but elusive) image of the arrow.

In the 1950s, the figure of the arrow had a strange kind of ubiquity in architectural drawings, publications, and advertisements, symbolizing everything from the circulation of cold and warm air in a kitchen fridge to the flow of traffic in assorted New Towns. Twenty-five...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262548992
• ISBN13: 9780262548991
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 192 Pages