A few years ago, the Buffalo Grain Elevator Project presented Rediscovering the Concrete Atlantis: Buffalo Grain Elevators–a collection of essays by some of the most important scholars in the Buffalo/Niagara Falls area (Francis R. Kowsky, Ivonne Jaeger, Hadas Steiner, Thomas Yots, and Michael Frisch). The book contains six essays, ranging from Silo Dreams, “which discusses the relationship of the Grain Elevators to the Modern movement in architecture, to Where is the Fun in a Grain Elevator”, which takes a more populist approach to presenting the potential for these iconoclastic structures.”
If youire a fan of what LeCorbusier called, “the first fruits of the new age”, check it out. Itis available for download in pdf format.
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