USA: modern Architectures in History.(BACK IN THE USA)(Book review)

The Architectural Review | June 1, 2008| | Copyright

By Gwendolyn Wright. London: Reaktion Books. 2008. [pounds sterling]16.95

USA is the latest instalment in Reaktion Books' Modern Architectures in History series. It's a compact tome tracking many stories that together constitute this account of American architecture,from Reconstruction and Chicago's earliest skyscrapers, through the WPA (Works Progress Administration) and SOM's Corporate Modernism in the 1950s, to Ground Zero, recent housing experiments in California, and Diamond Ranch High School by Thom Mayne/Morphosis (AR March 2001).

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