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Deyan Sudjic is Director of the Design Museum. He was born in London, and studied architecture in Edinburgh. He has worked as a critic for the Observer and The Sunday Times, as the editor of Domus in Milan, as the director of the Venice Architecture Biennale, and as a curator in Glasgow, Istanbul and Copenhagen. He is the author of B is for Bauhaus, The Language of Things and The Edifice Complex.
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Astonishing ... a thrilling and passionately indignant trawl through vanity's most polluted depths -- Jonathan Meades * Times * Punchily written ... deftly amusing ... a closely argued, brilliantly marshalled, important book -- Tom Rosenthal * Daily Mail * Full of fascinating fact and smart observation ... clever, stimulating and thoughtful -- Stephen Bayley * Observer * Essential reading for anyone who cares about the physical world around them -- Amanda Levete * Independent * As compelling a read as a popular novel ... it is as though the worlds of academe and the gossip column collide ... funny, acidic, penetrating and provocative -- Norman Foster * Royal Academy Magazine *
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- PublisherPenguin Books
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0241952778
- ISBN 13 9780241952771
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- Number of pages455
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