A Concrete Atlantis
A Concrete Atlantis: US Industrial Building and European Modern Architecture Reyner Banham,
Publisher: The MIT Press
ISBN: 0262521245
DDC: 720
Edition: Paperback; 1989-04-03
Summary:
"Let us listen to the counsels of American engineers. But let us
beware of American architects!" declared Le Corbusier, who like other
European architects of his time believed that he saw in the work of
American industrial builders a model of the way architecture should
develop. It was a vision of an ideal world, a "concrete Atlantis"
made up of daylight factories and grain elevators. In a book that
suggests how good Modern was before it went wrong, Reyner Banham
details the European discovery of this concrete Atlantis and examines
a number of striking architectural instances where aspects of the
International Style are anticipated by US industrial buildings.
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