Power and Style: A Critique of Twentieth-Century Architecture in the United States - Tapa dura

Power and Style is a trenchant analysis of twentieth-century architecture and its relationship to civic, corporate, and individual power.
Throughout, he offers critiques of the buildings themselves - these reflections, as he sees it, of America's changing socioeconomic structure. This is an invaluable book on modern U.S. architecture, which demonstrates, in the finest tradition of cultural history, whom architecture serves, how, and for what reasons.

Robert Twombly is professor of history at City College of New York and its School of Architecture.