This still-popular catchphrase, nailing the British preoccupation with World War II, comes from the 1975 sitcom Fawlty Towers. In a key episode, the eccentric manager…
Women have been mostly missing from the history of Modernism. Authors Mary Anne Hunting and Kevin D. Murphy seek to correct the record. In this…
✕ Los Angeles Before the Freeways: Images of an Era 1850–1950, by Arnold Hylen with Nathan Marsak. Angel City Press at the Los Angeles Public…
✕ The new book by Madrid-based architecture critic and RECORD contributing editor David Cohn traces the roots of modernism in Spain, from the Spanish Enlightenment…
✕ We often hear that history flatters the past by forgetting half of it. Although we shouldn’t need to be reminded of the lives taken…
✕ The typical tale of the design of the United Nations Headquarters in New York as a World Cup match between Le Corbusier and Oscar…
✕ This roundup of the year-end’s most captivating reads includes monographs and more from Shigeru Ban, Fernanda Canales, Carol Ross Barney, and many others. All…