PETER BLAKENo Place Like UtopiaModern Architecture and the Company We KeptA wonderfully readable historical and personal document and a pungent commentary on modern architecture. "Blake pulls no punches and deflates several overblown reputations in this refreshingly candid memoir of the heady early days of architectural Modernism."--Witold Rybczynski A writer, editor, critic, and practicing architect who has lived in the mainstream of contemporary architecture and art for over half a century, Peter Blake numbers among his friends and acquaintances (and occasionally enemies) virtually all the major figures of modern architecture. In this crisp and lively memoir, he traces the course of modern architecture from its birth between wars, with a strong sense of social and political idealism, to the elitism of the 1960s, and the beginnings of a return to its original principles. 1996 / paperback / ISBN 0-393-31503-7 / 90 photographs and drawings / 352 pages / architecture/memoir | |||||
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