Form Follows Fiasco: Why Modern Architecture Hasn't Worked
Blake, Peter
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Add to basketSold by Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
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Add to basketgrey cloth boards w/ black cloth quarter spine. 169 pgs w/ 133 bw illustrations. glossy, grey & white illustrated dustjacket. Skillfully blending documentation and illustrations, and gradually sharpening polemic and humor, Blake calmly explodes the fantasies of modern dogma that most architects once accepted. Such truisms as 'form follows function', 'the open plan,' and 'purity of design' are exposed as volatile ideas. The intricately planned, artistically designed components of the Ideal City have divided urban areas into tidy ghettos of culture, education, business, residence.even pornography.alienating individuals and threatening not only the economic futures of our cities, but civilized aspects of life in the West as well.--dustjacket. VG-/G+ (shelf-wear to cover edges. foxing to textblock edges, cover pastedowns & endpapers. pgs clean & bright, though may have instances of foxing. tight binding. dustjacket scuffed, smudged & scratched; edge-wear; tears to spine & edges; foxing to edges & interior; flap creased & clipped).
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