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May 12, 2010
Sabine Hake Topographies of Class: Modern Architecture and Mass Society in Weimar Berlin Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008. 336 pp.; 60 b/w ills. Paper $37.50 (9780472050383)
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Paul Overy Light, Air and Openness: Modern Architecture Between the Wars New York: Thames and Hudson, 2008. 256 pp.; 66 ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780500342428)
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The history of modern interwar architecture has been told many times, first by a generation of critics committed to ensuring that this experiment endured and next by scholars, many of whom were also passionate defenders of what had once been highly experimental forms. The first satisfied itself with the analysis of the physical object (form, plan, construction), supported by the theories of its architects; the second has excavated the archival record, using drawings and letters,...