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No place like Utopia : modern architecture and the company we kept / Peter Blake.
LIBRA NA737.B55 A2 1993b
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blake, Peter, 1920-2006, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Blake, Peter, 1920-2006.
- Blake, Peter.
- Architects--United States--Biography.
- Architects.
- Architects--Psychology.
- United States.
- International style (Architecture).
- Architecture and society--History--20th century.
- Architecture and society.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 347 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Distribution:
- New York : Random House.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.
- Summary:
- "For more than half a century, Peter Blake has lived in the mainstream of contemporary architecture and art. As writer, magazine editor, critic, and practicing architect, he has numbered among his friends and acquaintances (and occasionally enemies) virtually all of the major figures of modern architecture, and a good many famous artists as well. In this crisp and lively memoir, he brings them - and the time he shared with them - vividly and memorably to life."--BOOK JACKET. "
- "The anecdotes are memorable. Here is Frank Lloyd Wright (regarded by Blake as a perfect example of "the Artist as Ham," though he greatly admired his buildings) exploding at the discovery of young Blake's savage review of his Autobiography ... Bertrand Russell trying to escape visitors by hiding up a tree in Pennsylvania, as he calmly puffs away on his pipe ... Buckminster Fuller tap-dancing on a drafting table to demonstrate the metrical affinity between bebop and a new mathematical system he is working on ... Mies van der Rohe at work, stolidly gazing at a model of an ITT building while assistants scurry around making alterations ... Marcel Breuer telling how he invented his famous chair ... Philip Johnson delightedly answering a solemn question about heat loss from a visitor to his glass house: "The heat loss is absolutely tremendous" - and beaming from ear to ear."--BOOK JACKET.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.
- ISBN:
- 0394548965
- 9780394548968
- OCLC:
- 1014192745
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