Published by Little, Brown, Boston, 1977
Language: English
Seller: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
paperback. Condition: Near Fine. DETAILS: tall sewn PAPERBACK, cover price $6.95, attractive copy, near fine with only slight wear to corners. BLAKE, PETER. Form follows fiasco: why modern architecture hasn't worked. Boston: Little, Brown, 1977, stated First Edition, 169pp., . Cover design by Marge Anderson. An Atlantic Monthly Press book - Architect Peter Blake uses words and pictures to produce a witty, iconoclastic attack on the errors of the recent architectural past, and to recommend a new future course for international architecture and planning - CONTNTS: The fantasy of function -- The fantasy of the open plan -- The fantasy of purity -- The fantasy of technology -- The fantasy of the skyscraper -- The fantasy of the ideal city -- The fantasy of mobility -- The fantasy of zoning -- The fantasy of housing -- The fantasy of form -- The fantasy of architecture. ISBN 0316099392 20.00.