Mill Reef Style: The Mid-Century Modern Architecture of Robertson Ward

by Stephen S. Lash and Elizabeth Ballantine

In 1946, Robertson "Happy" Ward, the famed mid-century modernist, embarked on the Caribbean's most successful architectural endeavor: erecting the Mill Reef Club in Antigua, West Indies. At a time when images of nuclear war stalked the American imagination and the great American architects were preoccupied with the grimmer strains of modernism--skyscrapers, airports, and bunkers--Ward rebelled: in the Mill Reef Club, he somehow monumentalized American...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1586671251
• ISBN13: 9781586671259
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Derrydale Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 13.8" x 9.3"