Age of the Masters: Personal View of Modern Architecture [Hardcover]

Reyner Banham (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 170 pages
• Publisher: Architectural Press; Revised edition (March 1975)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0851393985
• ISBN-13: 978-0851393988
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,625,811 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Thoroughly Enjoyable & An Individual Voice, July 20, 2001

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Peter F. Stubbs (Portland, OR United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Age of the Masters: A Personal View of Modern Architecture (Icon editions) (Hardcover)

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.