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Edward Durrell Stone: Modernism's Populist Architect
By Mary Hunting
Perhaps the best-known building by maverick modernist Edward Durrell Stone is 2 Columbus Circle, a monolithic marble-clad slab that loomed over the eponymous New York junction and was loved and hated in equal measures before its comprehensive reconstruction by Allied Words Architects in 2008. Stone's idiosyncratic modernism is finally coming back in vogue, with the structures he designed for corporations, cultural institutions and government departments displaying a fusion of strict rigour and quirky detailing, marking him out as an individual talent in an era of strict architectural uniformity.
Published by W.W. Norton & Co., £35
Writer: Jonathan Bell