No Place Like Utopia: Modern Architecture and the Company We Kept - Softcover

Blake, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393315037 ISBN 13: 9780393315035

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1996

Synopsis

For more than half a century, Peter Blake has lived in the mainstream of contemporary architecture and art. As writer, magazine editor, critic, and practicing architect, he has numbered among his friends and acquaintances (and occasionally enemies) virtually all of the major figures of modern architecture, and a good many famous artists as well. In this crisp and lively memoir, he brings them―and the time he shared with them―vividly and memorably to life. The anecdotes are memorable.

Brings to life the masters of twentieth-century architecture and art, sharing anecdotes and memories of Frank Lloyd Wright, Buckminster Fuller, Le Corbusier, Jackson Pollock, and others.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

No Place Like Utopia has a deep theme: how modern architecture, born and raised between the wars and after with a strong sense of social and political idealism, gradually fell back in the 1960s into its ancient role as an elitist pursuit dedicated to flattering the rich and powerful.

About the Author:

The late Peter Blake, an architect, once served as head of the architecture and design department of the Museum of Modern Art, editor in chief of Architectural Forum, and chairman of the department of architecture at Catholic University.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0393315037
• ISBN 13: 9780393315035
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 372