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No Place Like Utopia: Modern Architecture and the Company We Kept
Peter Blake
ISBN 13: 9780393315035
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Publication Date: 1996
Binding: Softcover
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No Place Like Utopia has a deep theme: how modern architecture, born and raised between the wars and after with a strong sense of social and political idealism, gradually fell back in the 1960s into its ancient role as an elitist pursuit dedicated to flattering the rich and powerful.
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Book Description: WW Norton Co, United States, 1997. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 254 x 178 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery ***** Print on Demand *****. For more than half a century, Peter Blake has lived in the mainstream of contemporary architecture and art. As writer, magazine editor, critic, and practicing architect, he has numbered among his friends and acquaintances (and occasionally enemies) virtually all of the major figures of modern architecture, and a good many famous artists as well. In this crisp and lively memoir, he brings them - and the time he shared with them - vividly and memorably to life. The anecdotes are memorable. Here is Frank Lloyd Wright (regarded by Blake as a perfect example of "the Artist as Ham, " though he greatly admired his buildings) exploding at the discovery of young Blake's savage review of his Autobiography . Bertrand Russell trying to escape visitors by hiding up a tree in Pennsylvania, as he calmly puffs away on his pipe . Buckminster Fuller tap-dancing on a drafting table to demonstrate the metrical affinity between bebop and a new mathematical system he is working on . Mies van der Rohe at work, stolidly gazing at a model of an ITT building while assistants scurry around making alterations . Marcel Breuer telling how he invented his famous chair . Philip Johnson delightedly answering a solemn question about heat loss from a visitor to his glass house: "The heat loss is absolutely tremendous" - and beaming from ear to ear. But No Place Like Utopia also has a deeper theme: how modern architecture, born and raised between the wars and after with a strong sense of social and political idealism, in the 1960s gradually fell back into its ancient role as an elitist pursuit dedicated to flattering the rich and powerful. Only now, as Blake makes clear, can we see the beginnings of a return toits original principles. From the push-and-pull of politics, culminating in the witch-hunts of the McCarthy period, to heady days in the magazine business, first with Architectural Forum and then with the brilliant but ultimately doomed Architecture Plus, Peter Blake has always be. Bookseller Inventory # APC9780393315035 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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