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Reyner Banham : historian of the immediate future / Nigel Whiteley.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2002]Copyright date: ©2002Description: xix, 494 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0262232162
  • 9780262232166
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.92 21
LOC classification:
  • NA2599.8.B36 W48 2002
Contents:
1. The Mechanical Sensibility: The First Machine Age Revised -- 2. Popular Desires and Rough Poetry: The Independent Group, New Brutalism, and Architecture Autre -- 3. Science for Kicks: An Architecture of Technology for the Second Machine Age -- 4. The Expanded Field: Fit Environments for Human Activities -- 5. Late or Post?: Banham's Modernist Values -- 6. Expendable Icons and Softer Hardware: Banham's Design Criticism -- Conclusion: Changing His Mind or Having It Both Ways?
Review: "Reyner Banham (1922-1988) was one of the most influential writers on architecture, design, and popular culture from the mid-1950s to the late 1980s. His first book, Theory and Design in the First Machine Age (still in print with the MIT Press after forty years), was central to the overhaul of Modernism, and it gave Futurism and Expressionism credibility amid the dynamism and change of the 1960s." "This biography is a comprehensive critical examination of Banham's theories and ideas, not only on architecture but also on the wide variety of subjects that interested him. It covers the full range of his oeuvre and discusses the values, enthusiasms, and influences that formed his thinking."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-479) and index.

1. The Mechanical Sensibility: The First Machine Age Revised -- 2. Popular Desires and Rough Poetry: The Independent Group, New Brutalism, and Architecture Autre -- 3. Science for Kicks: An Architecture of Technology for the Second Machine Age -- 4. The Expanded Field: Fit Environments for Human Activities -- 5. Late or Post?: Banham's Modernist Values -- 6. Expendable Icons and Softer Hardware: Banham's Design Criticism -- Conclusion: Changing His Mind or Having It Both Ways?

"Reyner Banham (1922-1988) was one of the most influential writers on architecture, design, and popular culture from the mid-1950s to the late 1980s. His first book, Theory and Design in the First Machine Age (still in print with the MIT Press after forty years), was central to the overhaul of Modernism, and it gave Futurism and Expressionism credibility amid the dynamism and change of the 1960s." "This biography is a comprehensive critical examination of Banham's theories and ideas, not only on architecture but also on the wide variety of subjects that interested him. It covers the full range of his oeuvre and discusses the values, enthusiasms, and influences that formed his thinking."--BOOK JACKET.

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