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Title: Boring - should have been much better
Review: Tom Vanderbilt would love to be an architect. He's constantly critical of 1950's architecture - wherever he finds it.With surprisingly little technical knowledge, he tours testing grounds and bunkers. But it's not all Atomic America: he has the same commentary towards Arcosanti and Biosphere. Where I yearn for a storyline, he delivers watered down architecural critique.Vanderbilt's writing seems to follow this algorithm: Begin a paragraph using a sentence with an odd phrase in quotations. Then refute this with an academic argument. The first dozen times are fun. A whole book written in this style is tedious.The 1950's nuclear crazyness presents a rich lode for research. The subject (and readers) deserves much more.
