Selected Essays by Reyner Banham
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Reyner Banham (1922-1988) was Sheldon H. Solow Professor of the History of Architecture at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and Professor of Art History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His many books include Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (1973), Theory and Design in the First Machine Age (1980), and A Concrete Atlantis: U.S. Industrial Building and European Modern Architecture (1986). Mary Banham is an artist, editor, and curator who collaborated with her husband on his books and articles. Paul Barker, for many years editor of New Society, writes and broadcasts on social, environmental, and cultural issues. Sutherland Lyall, Literary Advisor to the Banham estate, has written seven books on architecture, design, and building. Cedric Price is an internationally acclaimed architect. The editors currently live in London.
Acknowledgments Foreword by Peter Hall 1950s 1. Vehicles of Desire 2. The New Brutalism 3. Ornament and Crime: The Decisive Contribution of Adolf Loos 4. Ungrab That Gondola 5. Machine Aesthetes 6. Unesco House 7. The Glass Paradise 8. Primitives of a Mechanized Art The 1960s 9. Stocktaking 10. Alienation of Parts 11. Design by Choice 12. Carbonorific 13. Big Doug, Small Piece 14. Old Number One 15. Kent and Capability 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 Nails 24. History Faculty, Cambridge 25. The Wilderness Years of Frank Lloyd Wright The 1970s 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 Ia 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: Simply Filed Away The 1980s 44. The Haunted Highway 45. Dead on the Fault 46. 0, Bright Star ... 47. Stirling Escapes the Hobbits 48. Fiat: The Phantom of Order 49. Modern Monuments 50. Building Inside Out 51. In the Neighborhood of Art On the Wings of Wonder 53. Actual Monuments 54. A Black Box: The Secret Profession of Architecture Bibliography Index