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Article: No Place Like Utopia: Modern Architecture and the Company We Kept.(Review)
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- Utopian Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 1998
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Peter Blake. No Place Like Utopia: Modern Architecture and the Company We Kept. New York: W.W. Norton, 1993. xvi + 347 pp. $24.99.
"It was marvelous to be alive when Utopia was young ..." (326) says Peter Blake, who has written a lively book about his life and reflections on the Modern Movement in architecture in the era between the wars (WWI and WWII) and through the expanding post war years. Blake is uniquely suited to write this book. He was born in Stralsund on the Baltic in 1920 and like many mid-century architects and artists who settled in the United States, had to flee his homeland because of political conditions in Europe. After returning from service in ...