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Tables of Contents for A Critic Writes
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
2
Foreword
xi
Peter Hall
The 1950s
1
46
1. Vehicles of Desire
3
4
2. The New Brutalism
7
9
3. Ornament and Crime: The Decisive Contribution of Adolf Loos
16
8
4. Ungrab That Gondola
24
2
5. Machine Aesthetes
26
3
6. Unesco House
29
3
7. The Glass Paradise
32
7
8. Primitives of a Mechanized Art
39
8
The 1960s
47
102
9. 1960--Stocktaking
49
15
10. Alienation of Parts
64
3
11. Design by Choice
67
12
12. Carbonorific
79
3
13. Big Doug, Small Piece
82
2
14. Old Number One
84
3
15. Kent and Capability
87
4
16. The Dymaxicrat
91
5
17. The Style for the Job
96
4
18. How I Learnt to Live with the Norwich Union
100
5
19. People's Palaces
105
4
20. The Great Gizmo
109
10
21. Aviary, London Zoological Gardens
119
3
22. Unlovable at Any Speed
122
2
23. Roadscape with Rusting Nails
124
5
24. History Faculty, Cambridge
129
8
25. The Wilderness Years of Frank Lloyd Wright
137
12
The 1970s
149
86
26. Power of Trent and Aire
151
6
27. The Crisp at the Crossroads
157
4
28. The Historian on the Pier
161
5
29. The Master Builders
166
9
30. Rank Values
175
5
31. Paleface Trash
180
4
32. Power Plank
184
4
33. Iron Bridge Embalmed
188
4
34. Sundae Painters
192
4
35. Bricologues a la Lanterne
196
4
36. Lair of the Looter
200
3
37. Valley of the Dams
203
5
38. Grass Above, Glass Around
208
4
39. Summa Galactica
212
4
40. Pevsner's Progress
216
7
41. Taking It With You
223
4
42. Hotel Deja-quoi?
227
4
43. Valentino: Simply Filed Away
231
4
The 1980s
235
66
44. The Haunted Highway
237
5
45. Dead on the Fault
242
4
46. O, Bright Star...
246
5
47. Stirling Escapes the Hobbits
251
5
48. Fiat: The Phantom of Order
256
5
49. Modern Monuments
261
4
50. Building Inside Out
265
5
51. In the Neighborhood of Art
270
6
52. On the Wings of Wonder
276
5
53. Actual Monuments
281
11
54. A Black Box: The Secret Profession of Architecture
292
9
Bibliography
301
40
Index
341