The Threat to the Next America
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"The Threat to the Next America" (1953) is an essay by Elizabeth Gordon.
In it, she criticized International Style modern architecture and associated it with totalitarianism and communism.
She also said the style was non-practical, citing many instances where "glass houses" were too hot in summer and too cold in winter, empty, take away private space, lack beauty and generally are not livable. Moreover, she accused this style proponents of taking away sense of beauty from people and thus covertly pushing for totalitarian society.
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