World's Fairs

By Erik Mattie

As showcases of design, architecture, technology, industry and politics, world's fairs have served as overviews of society's accomplishments as well as barometers of the optimism for the future. While... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568981325
• ISBN13: 9781568981321
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 3.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 1.0" x 1.0"

Customer Reviews

Overall good, but somewhat incomplete

This is a nice "coffee table" book with lots of rare photographs and drawings . The book is focused on the architecture of past World's Fairs, and the author chooses expositions that he considers to be architecturally significant. This means that his choices are a bit arbitrary, and also, because of their transient nature, most of the buildings at World's Fairs will eventually be torn down. The author basically ignores most of the World's Fairs that have taken place in the last 25 years, and doesn't mention some landmarks from recent World's Fairs, that have become part of the buildings that define a city, such as the Canada Place building from Expo '86 in Vancouver, that is a key part of that city's architecture now.