The architect of abstraction.

The article offers information on how the architect's uncompromising allegiance to a geometrical pattern could interfere with the basic purpose of viewing the art. It mentions the two buildings illustrate the two principal ways modernist architects responded to the challenges of creating a new archi...

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Published in:New Criterion Vol. 38; no. 2; pp. 37 - 41
Main Author: Semes, Steven W.
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Published: New Criterion Oct2019
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