INLAND ARCHITECTURE: SUBTERRANEAN ESSAYS ON MORAL ORDER AND FORMAL ORDER IN CHICAGO

by Philip Bess, with foreword by Howard Decker

INTERALIA/DESIGN Books; ISBN: 0-9630969-6-6

$19.95, paperback--172 pp. including 72 black and white plates.

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What the critics say about INLAND ARCHITECTURE:

Philip Bess stands out amongst modern architecture critics as a brilliant if solitary defender of a common sense approach, explaining in clear language the metaphysical foundations of good building and urbanism.  It is not blind will-to-power or obtuse market forces, he convincingly demonstrates, that build or destroy our cities and lives, but good or bad ideas.

                 --Leon Krier, architect and city planner, author

                             ARCHITECTURE: CHOICE OR FATE

Philip Bess's rigorous and aimiable intellect ranges from Vitruvius to the infield fly rule, with stops along the way to visit Saint Thomas Aquinas, Alberti, Max Weber, and Daniel Burnham.  His demolition of the currently reigning celebrity frauds of Post-modernism is alone worth the price of admission.  A pleasure to read and a real oasis of intelligence in the desert of contemporary architectural commentary.

               --James Howard Kunstler, author THE GEOGRAPHY OF

                             NOWHERE and HOME FROM NOWHERE