A History of the Garage Without a Footnote: a Review of Erlanger’s and Govela’s ‘Garage’

2019-01-10T11:21:00-05:00

“We have taken the garage to be the most important architectural form of the 20th century.”

This is the provocation that drew me in and inspired me to consider each and every subsequent one offered by artist Olivia Erlanger and architect Luis Ortega Govela. ‘Garage’ has a lot of arguments about the nature and significance of the automobile garage - none of which, I quickly learned, are supported by footnotes. This is rare for a book that focuses on the history of a subject, especially one published by the formidable MIT Press.

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A History of the Garage Without a Footnote: a Review of Erlanger’s and Govela’s ‘Garage’