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Item Title
Is Modern Architecture Disastrous?
Collection TitleFiring Line broadcast records
Guest
Wolfe, Tom
Host
Buckley, William F., Jr.
(1925-2008)
Date CreatedOctober 01, 1981
Description
A rip-roaring attack on the shibboleths of modern architecture-and with a Firing Line rarity, visual aids (illustrations from Mr. Wolfe's book). TW: "The irony of this is all these forms were created for the workers in the ruins and rubble of Germany after the First World War under a Socialist government, and somehow, as if they had bounced off Telstar, landed on Sixth Avenue, Park Avenue-practically any avenue you want to name in any large American city.... Far from housing workers these structures ... are housing the corporate giants of America.... And they are all in worker-housing forms."
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Place RecordedNew York City, New York, United States
DimensionsDuration: 60 minutes
FormatMoving Image
Medium
television programs
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Color
color
Soundtrack
sound
Hoover IDProgram S0481
Record Number80040.722
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Collection Guidehttps://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6m3nc88c
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