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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

Author

Banham, Reyner

Publisher

MIT Press; Mit Pr

Published

1986

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262521246

Subjects

Art, Architecture, Arts

Updated

2026-03-25