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A critic writes : essays by Reyner Banham / selected by Mary Banham [and others] ; foreword by Peter Hall.
Main entry:

Banham, Reyner.

Title & Author:

A critic writes : essays by Reyner Banham / selected by Mary Banham [and others] ; foreword by Peter Hall.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [1996]
©1996

Description:

xv, 351 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm.

Series:

A centennial book

Notes:
"A centennial book"--Page [i].
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-339) and index.
Foreword / Peter Hall -- The 1950s: Vehicles of desire ; The new brutalism ; Ornament and crime: the decisive contribution of Adolf Loos ; Ungrab that gondola ; Machine aesthetes ; Unesco house ; The glass paradise ; Primitives of a mechanized art -- The 1960s: 1960: stocktaking ; Alienation of parts ; Design by choice ; Carbonorific ; Big Doug, small piece ; Old number one ; Kent and capability ; The dymaxicrat ; The style for the job ; How I learnt to live with the Norwich Union ; People's palaces ; The great gizmo ; Aviary, London Zoological Gardens ; Unlovable at any speed ; Roadscape with rusting nails ; History faculty, Cambridge ; The wilderness years of Frank Lloyd Wright -- The 1970s: Power of Trent and Aire ; The crisp at the crossroads ; The historian on the pier ; The master builders ; Rank values ; Paleface trash ; Power plank ; Iron bridge embalmed ; Sundae painters ; Bricologues a la lanterne ; Lair of the looter ; Valley of the dams ; Grass above, glass around ; Summa galactica ; Pevsner's progress ; Taking it with you ; Hotel deja-quoi? ; Valentino: simply filed away -- The 1980s: The haunted highway ; Dead on the fault ; O, bright star ; Stirling escapes the hobbits ; Fiat: the phantom of order ; Modern monuments ; Building inside out ; In the neighborhood of art ; On the wings of wonder ; Actual monuments ; A black box: the secret profession of architecture.
Dust jacket.
Summary:

Rayner Banham's interests ranged from architecture and the culture of pop art to urban and industrial design. This selection of essays includes discussions of Italian Futurism, Adolf Loos, Paul Scheerbart, and the Bauhaus, as well as the contemporary architecture of Gehry, Stirling and Foster.

ISBN:

0520088557 (alk. paper)
9780520088559 (alk. paper)
0520219449
9780520219441

Subject:

Banham, Reyner 1922-1988
Design 2016
Design History 20th century.
Modernism (Art)
Architecture.
Art.
Modernism [Art].
Design Histoire 20e siècle.
Modernisme (Art)
architecture (discipline)
Design
Architektur
Ästhetik
Bouwkunst.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Decorative arts History 20th century.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Bibliographie.
Schriften.
works of art.
Art
History
Œuvres d'art.

Added entries:

Banham, Mary.
Centennial book.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 114287
Call No.: ID NK1390.B28; ID:96-B2504
Status: Available

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