The Unreal America: Architecture and Illusion

Huxtable, Ada Louise

ISBN 10: 1565844270 / ISBN 13: 9781565844278

Published by The New Press, New York, 1997

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4to, 188 pp.

Seller Inventory # 065842

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Unreal America: Architecture and Illusion
• Publisher: The New Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1565844270
• ISBN 13: 9781565844278
• Binding: softcover
• Illustrator: Profusely illustrated
• Edition: 2nd prt.
• Condition: Nearly fine copy
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture

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Synopsis

A leading American architectural critic examines Americans' peculiar passion for synthetic environments, such as shopping malls and Disneyworld, and charges today's architecture with being dehumanized and functionally out of tune with the environment.

About the Author

Ada Louise Huxtable, former New York Times critic, winner of the first Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism, MacArthur Fellow, and Pritzker Prize Judge, is currently the architecture critic for the Wall Street Journal. Her books include Architecture Anyone?, Goodbye History, Hello Hamburger; The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered; Kicked a Building Lately?; and Classical New York. She lives in New York City and Marblehead, Massachusetts.