The Failure of Modern Architecture

A revised issue of the 1976 edition. Some reviews from that edition:


Boston Sunday Globe

“The Sherlock Holmes analogy is only one of the entertaining comparisons that make Brolin’s book something few volumes on architecture ever are—intelligent for architects yet free enough from priestly jargon to be worth the Interest of a general readership.”


Arthur Koestler

“Brolin attempts to liberate the budding architect from the frustrating dogmatism of his grandfathers, who branded all ornamentation as sinful... a provocative book which comes at the right time.”


Journal of the Royal Society of Arts (John Gloag)

Much of what he says badly needed saying, and one hopes that his ideas are widely circulated and penetrate the minds not only of architectural students but of young architects and industrial designers. If he is taken as seriously as he should be, we may see the end of boring in-humanism in architecture and a warmer relationship between men and the buildings they design and use The illustrations and their captions and the moderate, unemotional approach to the whole subject of architecture and people, give this book a quiet but unmistakable authority.