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Peter Pennoyer & Anne Walker The Architecture of Warren & Wetmore. W. W. Norton, 256 pages, $60
The violent contempt of modernist architects for the classical revival can be understood intellectually, but no longer can it be appreciated psychologically. One understands why Louis Sullivan, for example, despised the academic classicism of modern France as "the virus of a culture, snobbish and alien to the land;' which disrupted the indigenous architectural realism that he had helped create. Or why a Beaux-Arts essay such as Charles McKim's Pennsylvania Station might be thought of as "bogus antique." But it is impossible for us to see the demolition of that station ...