Age of the Masters: A Personal View of Modern Architecture

by Reyner Banham

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0064303691
• ISBN13: 9780064303699
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Thoroughly Enjoyable & An Individual Voice

That Banham knew or met many of the Architects in this book (Gropius, Aalto, Stirling, Mies) only adds to the personal flavor of the criticism. Far from uniformly positive, the book does show a basic love of Modern Architecture & all its contradictions. From Mies to Bruce Goff to Aalto to the penguin house in the London Zoo (an hilarious review), Banham covers the spectrum well & with an ever so slightly jaundiced eye. Great & opinionated.