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Article: Modernism's threat?(From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture's Encounter with the American City)(Book review)
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- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 2007
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FROM A CAUSE TO A STYLE: MODERNIST ARCHITECTURE'S ENCOUNTER WITH THE AMERICAN CITY
By Nathan Glazer. Woodstock: Princeton University Press. 2007. [pounds sterling]15.95
Glazer comes to architecture as a lifetime New Yorker, academic, writer and neo-con. This collection of essays loosely grouped under the heads Public Architecture, New York, and the Planning Profession brings together precious papers. The collection is welcomed by Venturi, Rybczynski and Robert Gutman, dedicatee of one paper. Despite therefore the praise of Ronald Reagan, bracketed with JFK as an important president, and despite the endorsement of the views of a certain British royal, ...