Blake ClagetteABAA
Blake PeterABAA
Form Follows Fiasco: Why Modern Architecture Hasn't Worked
1977183172Boston/Toronto: Little Brown and Company / An Atlantic Monthly Press Book 1977. Hardcover. 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. grey 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. Little Brown and Company / An Atlantic Monthly Press Book hardcover books
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB · États-Unis30,00 $US≈ 25,38 €
