Power and style
Subtitle: a critique of twentieth-century architecture in the United States
By: Robert Twombly.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 130
Subjects: Architecture -- United States -- 20th century
Description: Power and Style is a trenchant analysis of twentieth-century architecture and its relationship to civic, corporate, and individual power. Throughout, he offers critiques of the buildings themselves - these reflections, as he sees it, of America's changing socioeconomic structure. This is an invaluable book on modern U.S. architecture, which demonstrates, in the finest tradition of cultural history, whom architecture serves, how, and for what reasons.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-123) and index.