A Critic Writes Essays by Reyner Banham 1st Edition by Mary Banham, Paul Barker, Sutherland Lyall, Cedric Price, Peter Hall ISBN 9780520923201 0520923200

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ISBN 10: 0520923200
ISBN 13: 9780520923201
Author: Mary Banham, Paul Barker, Sutherland Lyall, Cedric Price, Peter Hall

Few twentieth-century writers on architecture and design have enjoyed the renown of Reyner Banham. Born and trained in England and a U.S. resident starting in 1976, Banham wrote incisively about American and European buildings and culture. Now readers can enjoy a chronological cross-section of essays, polemics, and reviews drawn from more than three decades of Banham’s writings.

The volume, which includes discussions of Italian Futurism, Adolf Loos, Paul Scheerbart, and the Bauhaus as well as explorations of contemporary architecture by Frank Gehry, James Stirling, and Norman Foster, conveys the full range of Banham’s belief in industrial and technological development as the motor of architectural evolution. Banham’s interests and passions ranged from architecture and the culture of pop art to urban and industrial design. In brilliant analyses of automobile styling, mobile homes, science fiction films, and the American predilection for gadgets, he anticipated many of the preoccupations of contemporary cultural studies. Los Angeles, the city that Banham commemorated in a book and a film, receives extensive attention in essays on the Santa Monica Pier, the Getty Museum, Forest Lawn cemetery, and the ubiquitous freeway system.

Eminently readable, provocative, and entertaining, this book is certain to consolidate Banham’s reputation among architects and students of contemporary culture. For those acquainted with his writing, it offers welcome surprises as well as familiar delights. For those encountering Banham for the first time, it comprises the perfect introduction

A Critic Writes Essays by Reyner Banham 1st Edition Table of contents:

1 Vehicles of Desire

2 The New Brutalism

3 Ornament and Crime

4 Ungrab That Gondola

5 Machine Aesthetes

6 Unesco House

7 The Glass Paradise

8 Primitives of a Mechanized Art

9 1960—Stocktaking

10 Alienation of Parts

11 Design by Choice

12 Carbonorific

13 Big Doug, Small Piece

14 Old Number One

15 Kent and Capability

16 The Dymaxicrat

17 The Style for the Job

18 How I Learnt to Live with the Norwich Union

19 People’s Palaces

20 The Great Gizmo

21 Aviary, London Zoological Gardens

22 Unlovable at Any Speed

23 Roadscape with Rusting Rails

24 History Faculty, Cambridge

25 The Wilderness Years of Frank Lloyd Wright

26 Power of Trent and Aire

27 The Crisp at the Crossroads

28 The Historian on the Pier

29 The Master Builders

30 Rank Values

31 Paleface Trash

32 Power Plank

33 Iron Bridge Embalmed

34 Sundae Painters

35 Bricologues a la Lanterne

36 Lair of the Looter

37 Valley of the Dams

38 Grass Above, Glass Around

39 Summa Galactica

40 Pevsner’s Progress

41 Taking It With You

42 Hotel Deja-quoi?

43 Valentino

44 The Haunted Highway

45 Dead on the Fault

46 O, Bright Star.

47 Stirling Escapes the Hobbits

48 Fiat

49 Modern Monuments

50 Building Inside Out

51 In the Neighborhood of Art

52 On the Wings of Wonder

53 Actual Monuments

54 A Black Box

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