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No place like Utopia : (Record no. 11662)

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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number	92027847
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number	9780393315035
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number	2978005
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Classification number	NA737.B55
Item number	A2 1993
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number	720.92 BLA
Edition information	20
Item number	12838
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Blake, Peter,
Dates associated with a name	1920-2006.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title	No place like Utopia :
Remainder of title	modern architecture and the company we kept /
Statement of responsibility, etc.	Peter Blake.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement	1st American ed.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc.	New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc.	Knopf,
Date of publication, distribution, etc.	1993.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent	xvi, 347 p. :
Other physical details	ill. ;
Dimensions	25 cm.
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500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note	Includes index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc.	For more than half a century, Peter Blake has lived in the mainstream of contemporary architecture and art. As writer, magazine editor, critic, and practicing architect, he has numbered among his friends and acquaintances (and occasionally enemies) virtually all of the major figures of modern architecture, and a good many famous artists as well. In this crisp and lively memoir, he brings them - and the time he shared with them - vividly and memorably to life. The anecdotes are memorable. Here is Frank Lloyd Wright (regarded by Blake as a perfect example of "the Artist as Ham," though he greatly admired his buildings) exploding at the discovery of young Blake's savage review of his Autobiography ... Bertrand Russell trying to escape visitors by hiding up a tree in Pennsylvania, as he calmly puffs away on his pipe ... Buckminster Fuller tap-dancing on a drafting table to demonstrate the metrical affinity between bebop and a new mathematical system he is working on ... Mies van der Rohe at work, stolidly gazing at a model of an ITT building while assistants scurry around making alterations ... Marcel Breuer telling how he invented his famous chair ... Philip Johnson delightedly answering a solemn question about heat loss from a visitor to his glass house: "The heat loss is absolutely tremendous"--And beaming from ear to ear. But No Place Like Utopia also has a deeper theme: how modern architecture, born and raised between the wars and after with a strong sense of social and political idealism, in the 1960s gradually fell back into its ancient role as an elitist pursuit dedicated to flattering the rich and powerful. Only now, as Blake makes clear, can we see the beginnings of a return to its original principles. From the push-and-pull of politics, culminating in the witch-hunts of the McCarthy period, to heady days in the magazine business, first with Architectural Forum and then with the brilliant but ultimately doomed Architecture Plus, Peter Blake has always been energetically involved with his art and with his era. No Place Like Utopia is thus doubly valuable, as a wonderfully readable historical and personal document, and a pungent commentary on where modern architecture went wrong and right.
600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Blake, Peter,
Dates associated with a name	1920-2006.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element	Architects
Geographic subdivision	United States
Form subdivision	Biography.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element	International style (Architecture)
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element	Architects
General subdivision	Psychology.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element	Architecture and society
General subdivision	History
Chronological subdivision	20th century.
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Genre/form data or focus term	Biographies.
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Authority record control number or standard number	https://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026049
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Koha item type	Book
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Date last seen	Total checkouts	Full call number	Barcode	Date last checked out	Price effective from	Koha item type	Lost status	Damaged status	Not for loan	Collection	Withdrawn status	Home library	Current library	Shelving location	Date acquired	Source of acquisition	Cost, normal purchase price
01/15/2025	1	720.92 BLA	12838	01/14/2025	10/26/2021	Book				Architecture		Marium Abdulla Library	Marium Abdulla Library	Non-Ref	04/18/2017	Progressive International	2500.00

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