Mary Anne Hunting
W. W. Norton, New York, 2012, English
Nonfiction, Architecture
8.5 x 10 inches, hardcover, 176 pages, 125 illustrations
ISBN: 9780393733013
Suggested Retail Price: $55.00

From the Publisher. “Colossus,” “visionary,” “giant” are superlatives used in the mid-twentieth century to describe Edward Durell Stone (1902–1978), a celebrity architect whose wholly unique modern aesthetic of “new romanticism” played a crucial role in defining middle-class culture. Recognized in his prime as one of the nation’s most sought-after architects, Stone’s vast and prestigious workload brought prosperity on a scale rare in architecture in his time. His legacy—of giving form to the aspirations of the emerging consumer culture and of reconciling Modernism with the dynamism of the age—is established in Edward Durell Stone: Modernism’s Populist Architect.

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