Tomorrow’s buildings today: the rise and fall of space-age architecture
It's time to take futuristic architecture of the past seriously
Architecture; Last Futures: Nature, Technology and the End of Architecture; By Douglas Murphy; Verso Books, €26.60
It’s easy to laugh at space-age architecture, the outlandishly experimental buildings that, when built, were more likely to be located within the boundaries of a World’s Fair or an Expo than on your nearest high street.
What’s more difficult, and much more intriguing, is to set those strange buildings – a geodesic dome 200 feet tall, say, ...
