The Failure of Modern Architecture by Brent C. Brolin (Studio Vista 1976) is a polemical analysis of the crisis of modernist architectural design.
Time has not been kind to twentieth-century architecture. In this incisive study of the modern movement a practising American architect argues forcefully that modernism is rooted in outmoded and questionable nineteenth-century principles, moulded by the forces of political and economic development. With examples of modern and traditional vernacular architecture from around the world he details the sterility and inhospitality of modern buildings. For relief from this he suggests a greater use of our past and present visual resources, and calls for an architecture in which buildings are servants, rather than masters, of their surroundings and their users’ lives.
– Brent C. Brolin, The Failure of Modern Architecture (Studio Vista, 1976), excerpt from the book description
The text is in English. The book is profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs and architectural drawings.
Our copy in stock is in good condition. The pages are clean, no markings except for the previous owner’s signature on the first flyleaf. The binding is fine. The dust jacket shows some traces of edge wear and some signs of shelf wear and use.