Utopian Architecture Beyond the Concrete : The Transcendental and the Political Dimension of Laboratories and Religious Spaces
When the Bell Telephone Company built their new research facility in 1957, they did not opt for a functional box but for a cathedral of glass, steel, and concrete, set in a meticulously landscaped park. What can we learn from this striking corporate architecture through which architect Eero Saarinen...
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