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Article: Air age acropolis made with Aries in mind
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 7, 1995
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Reviewers talk of books landing on their desks. Modernism at
Mid- Century: the architecture of the United States Air Force
Academy (ed Robert Bruegmann, Chicago University Press) did exactly
that, dropping from the postboy's hands at 24in above desk level
and ploughing into a guilt pile of unread books, not to be seen
again for the next six months.
Excavating my desk over the weekend, Modernism at Mid-Century
took flight again, climbing, full-power, after-burners on, from the
base camp to the summit of my scale mountain range of books for
review. How could I have let it sit unattended for so long?
Modernism at Mid-Century is an inspiring monograph of one of the
greatest, yet by and large ...