No Place like Utopia
Modern Architecture and the Company We Kept
Peter Blake

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Author(s)

Peter Blake

Publication

New York ; London : W.W. Norton, 1993

Scope

349 Pages, illustrated, 24 cm.

ISBN

0393315037

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A practicing architect as well as an architectural critic, editor, and educator, Blake's half-century association with the Museum of Modern Art and the Architectural Forum placed him in the perfect position to observe, work with, and comment on the great figures of 20th-century architecture. Now Blake has written an insightful and illuminating memoir of his life, including his observations on the development and--as he sees it--the selling out of the International Style. Blake analyzes why the International Style, rooted in the European Socialism of the early 20th century, came to be embraced by the leaders of American Capitalism.

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Person as subject

Le Corbusier, Peter Kahn, Frank Lloyd Wright, …[et al.]

Keywords

sociology , architects , utopia , architecture theory

Location

Cabinet 15 - 3: Architectuur en Kunst

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