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Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bauhaus: Profiles in Architecture and Design
By Abrams, Janet
- ISBN
- 9781616899516
- Publisher
- Princeton Architectural
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Reviewed on October 1, 2020 | Arts & Humanities
Since 1980, UK expat Janet Abrams has crossed the Atlantic countless times to observe the arts and design scene, first for the outsider monthly Blueprint, and later for The Independent, Punch, and the New York Times. Collected here are 26 narrative essays, all of manageably moderate length, all from 1982–2006. Readers are thus teletransported into an architectural design zeitgeist surrounding the turn of the last millennium: postmodernism rejected, "Starch...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
