Reyner Banham and the Paradoxes of High Tech - Couverture rigide

Gannon, Todd

 
9781606065303: Reyner Banham and the Paradoxes of High Tech
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1606065300 ISBN 13 : 9781606065303
Editeur : Getty Publications, 2017

Synopsis

Reyner Banham and the Paradoxes of High Tech reassesses one of the most influential voices in twentieth-century architectural history through a detailed examination of Banham's writing on High Tech architecture and its immediate antecedents.

Taking as a guide Banham's habit of structuring his writings around dialectical tensions, Todd Gannon sheds new light on Banham's early engagement with the New Brutalism of Alison and Peter Smithson, his measured enthusiasm for the "clip-on" approach developed by Cedric Price and the Archigram group, his advocacy of "well-tempered environments" fostered by integrated mechanical and electrical systems, and his late-career assessments of High Tech practitioners such as Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, and Renzo Piano.

Gannon devotes significant attention to Banham's late work, including fresh archival materials related to Making Architecture: The Paradoxes of High Tech, the manuscript he left unfinished at his death in 1988. For the first time, readers will have access to Banham's previously unpublished draft introduction to that book.

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À propos de l'auteur

Todd Gannon is professor and head of the architecture section at The Ohio State University's Knowlton School. He is the coeditor of A Confederacy of Heretics (Getty Publications, 2013).

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Éditeur
Getty Publications
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1606065300
ISBN 13 
9781606065303
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
292
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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