Volume 9, Number 6 · October 12, 1967
This Property Is Condemned
By Reyner Banham
Modern Architecture and Expressionism
by Dennis Sharp
Braziller, 204 pp., $15.00
Architects on Architecture
by Paul Heyer
Walker, 415 pp., $17.50
Expressionism is to architecture as adultery is to marriage, at least in the sense that most people publicly support the stern moralists who condemn it, while wishing they were engaged in some themselves. But whereas adultery is a precise enough sin to be proven in law in the face of the adulterer's denials, accusations of Expressionism are something that most architects can talk their way out of—and of this we have had a public demonstration in Britain lately, with Richard Sheppard using the Third Programme to rebut accusations of Expressionism leveled at himself and other architects by such a stern moralist as Nikolaus Pevsner.
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