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A critic writes : essays by Reyner Banham /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Banham, Reyner
Otros Autores: Banham, Mary
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1996.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.