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Potentially persuasive demolition job on modern architecture. RIBA Journal A devastating case against modern architecture. Western Daily Press Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture demolishes the the belief system of the modern movement as ruthlessly as if he were dynamiting a redundant tower block. Halifax Evening Courier It is a volume I would like to see pressed into the hands of all architectural students. -- Gavin Stamp Art Newspaper An especially good book to give to developers, building committees, and any client who might be entranced by the idea of comissioning 'cutting edge design.' One also hopes the volume might be smuggled into the libraries of architectural schools. Traditional Building

Potentially persuasive demolition job on modern architecture. || A devastating case against modern architecture. || Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture demolishes the the belief system of the modern movement as ruthlessly as if he were dynamiting a redundant tower block. || It is a volume I would like to see pressed into the hands of all architectural students. || An especially good book to give to developers, building committees, and any client who might be entranced by the idea of comissioning 'cutting edge design.' One also hopes the volume might be smuggled into the libraries of architectural schools.

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Malcolm Millais is a retired structural engineer who worked with Arups and others on many postwar buildings in Britain and elsewhere.

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