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, [1999], ©1996.

Description:

xv, 351 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
"A centennial book"--Page 4 of cover
"A centennial book"--P. [4] of cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-339) and index.
Foreward / 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.
Library copy: Presentation copy to Cedric Price from Mary Banham (see Related Ephemera).
In Related Ephemera: 1 handwritten note from Mary Banham.

ISBN:

0520219449 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780520219441 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Banham, Reyner 1922-1988
Design History 20th century.
Modernism (Art)
Architecture.
Art.
Design Histoire 20e siècle.
Modernisme (Art)
architecture (discipline)
Art and Design.
Design
Architekturkritik
Architekturtheorie

Form/genre:

works of art.
Art
History
Œuvres d'art.

Added entries:

Banham, Mary.
Cedric Price Library
Cedric Price fonds
Presentation copies. Banham, Mary

Holdings:

Location: Library main price 267075
Call No.: BIB 199136
Status: Available

Location: Library main price related ephemera 267076
Call No.: BIB 199136
Status: Available