Blast from past: Review of Millais’s “Exploding …”

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“Modern Movement reality” by Louis Hellman: The legacy of founding modernist Le Corbusier [From Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture (2009, Frances Lincoln Ltd., London)] I’ve mentioned Malcolm Millais’s Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture several times in recent posts. Malcolm, a Brit who lives in Portugal, has sent innumerable nuggets that have helped me push this blog over the edge for years. He is a specialist on modernism’s totalitarian bent. Now I have been warned that the book, published in 2009, may be about to go out of print. This would be a disappointment, and a setback to any hope for the future of mankind. Andres Duany, the New Urbanism guru who is known and respected by many who read this blog (including its author), had this to say in December 2010 about Malcolm’s book:

I came across an excellent [book criticizing modernist architecture] a couple of months ago:

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