"Suborned by Veterans Administration loans and the newly conceived mortgage interest deduction--the neutron bombs that killed American cities--the migration to suburbia had a price, which some call the Geography of Nowhere. Arts & Architecture was a prescient force aligned against this mass-produced culture of dingbats, flattop malls and thruways. As the country drifted into the deadening alikeness of the Truman-Eisenhower years, Entenza and his obscure magazine, with a circulation of no more than 10,000, fought to express the conviction that, for less than $10 per square foot, art and architecture could stir the soul."
In the Los Angeles Times, Greg Goldin reviews Arts & Architecture. The Complete Reprint, 1945-54.
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