Avant-Garde in the Cornfields: Architecture, Landscape, and Preservation in New Harmony Edited by Ben Nicholson and Michelangelo Sabatino

Abstract

Editors Ben Nicholson and Michelangelo Sabatino have produced a significant book that analyzes the history, preservation, and building of innovative works of modern architecture  in the utopian town of New Harmony. The southwestern Indiana town, built along the Wabash River, was first founded as a religious colony, led by German George Rapp between 1814 and 1824. It later became a socialist experiment, led by Welshman Robert Owen, which lasted approximately three years.