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SHAPING THE MODERN AMERICAN CITY

1987; University of Toronto Press; Volume: 18; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3138/cras-018-01-09

1710-114X

George Thomas Kapelos,

Architecture, Modernity, and Design

Reyner Banham. A Concrete Atlantis: U.S. Industrial Building and European Modern Architecture. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1986. ix + 266 pp. IIlus. Tod A. Marder. The Critical Edge: Controversy in Recent American Architecture. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press for The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, 1985. 203 pp. Illus. Philip Johnson/John Burgee: Architecture 1979-1985, intro. by Carleton Knight III. New York: Rizzoli International Publications Inc. 192 pp. Illus. The common thread in these three very different books is architecture, but seen from three diverse perspectives: architectural research, history and current practice. Taken together they reflect the lively debate among architects, critics and the general public on the state of the profession in the United States today.