Labour, Work and Architecture

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Summary: Labour, Work and Architecture
Review: An accurate title, for it is laborious work to extract the nuggets of wisdom from Frampton's dense prose. However, the result justifies the effort, for the Columbia professor has an intelligent opinion on almost every modern building and movement. This anthology of essays, written over the past 35 years, ranges from Russian Constructivism, through evaluations of Aalto, Kahn, and Le Corbusier, to reviews of the Berlin Philharmonie, the Leicester Engineering Building and the Ford Foundation Headquarters - which he excoriates as "A House of Ivy League Values."