Form follows fiasco : why modern architecture hasn't worked / by Peter Blake.

Main entry:

Blake, Peter, 1920-2006.

Title & Author:

Form follows fiasco : why modern architecture hasn't worked / by Peter Blake.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Description:

169 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Series:

Atlantic Monthly Press book

Notes:
"An Atlantic Monthly Press book."
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.

Summary:

"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."--Book cover.

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ISBN:

0316099406
9780316099400
0316099392 (pbk.)
9780316099394 (pbk.)

Subject:

Functionalism (Architecture)
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Fonctionnalisme (Architecture)
Architecture 20e siècle.
functionalism.
Architecture, Modern
Moderne
Architekturkritik
Bouwkunst.
Functionalisme.
Architecture ca 1920-1971

Holdings:

Location: Library main 63116
Call No.: 2899
Status: Available

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