https://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2011/01/20/form-follows-fiasco/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usThu, 11 Jun 2026 09:02:46 -0400<![CDATA[Back in 1978, architectural critic Peter Blake wrote a book titled Form Follows Fiasco. In retrospect, it was sort of Tom Wolfe&#8217;s From Bauhaus to Our House played straight, except that unlike Wolfe, Blake, who for a time ran the architectural department at New York&#8217;s Museum of Modern Art, was once a true believer in modern architecture; to the best of my knowledge, The Master Builders, his early 1960s hagiography of Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright is still for sale to this day in the MoMA bookshop.]]>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:26:03 -0500<![CDATA[Ed Driscoll]]>https://pjmedia.com/ed-driscoll/2011/01/20/form-follows-fiasco-n253277