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May 1986
7 x 10, 279 pp., 128 illus.
(CLOTH)
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ISBN-10:
0-262-02244-3
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-02244-6

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A Concrete Atlantis
US Industrial Building and European Modern Architecture
Reyner Banham

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"Let us listen to the counsels of American engineers. But let us beware of American architects!" declared Le Corbusier, who like other European architects of his time believed that he saw in the work of American industrial builders a model of the way architecture should develop. It was a vision of an ideal world, a "concrete Atlantis" made up of daylight factories and grain elevators.

In a book that suggests how good Modern was before it went wrong, Reyner Banham details the European discovery of this concrete Atlantis and examines a number of striking architectural instances where aspects of the International Style are anticipated by U.S. industrial buildings.


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"A Concrete Atlantis is to be recommended to historians and architects ... but it can also be recommended to anyone who enjoys good architectural writing."
The Times Literary Supplement

"A passionate love song to an unlikely object.... A marvelous book"
Boston Globe

"A Concrete Atlantis is vintage Banham meticulously researched, inquiring, quirky, and, as ever, beautifully written"
New Society

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