How to Build a House from Reading a Drawing: Professional and Popular Mediations of Construction

Visual Communication

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 251-279

  Karlsson, Anna Malin ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

architecture; construction; discourse; drawing; magazines; modes

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248695063     PISSN: 14703572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1470357204045782     Document Type: Article

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