Volume 54, Number 14 · September 27, 2007
Master Builders
By Robert Hughes
Makers of Modern Architecture
by Martin Filler
New York Review Books, 323 pp., $27.95
Competent critics of architecture are not thick on the ground, and first-rate ones even rarer than first-rate writers of any kind. The world, or perhaps one should say the tiny globe, or better yet the ping-pong ball, of architectural criticism is close and restricted, and once you have subtracted the jargoneers, the self-indulgent theorists, and the captives of fashion-as-ideology it gets very small indeed.
Review, 3640 words
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