Ranting Cassandras
Jonathan Meades: Refugee Artists, 26 June 2025
The Alienation Effect: How Central European Émigrés Transformed the British 20th Century
by Owen Hatherley.
Allen Lane, 596 pp., £35, March,978 0 241 37820 5 Show More
by Owen Hatherley.
Allen Lane, 596 pp., £35, March,
“... American and has an enormous fortune.’ Unhappily, it didn’t feed. The Swiss American architect William Lescaze had already been appointed to design the dance school, the model farm, the weaving mill etc. Gropius was thrown the pre-gnawed bones. After working with Maxwell Fry to design one of a pair of complementary and now celebrated houses in Chelsea (the ... ”