No more giants

J. M. Richards, modernism and The Architectural Review

AvJessica Kelly

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

Del i serien Studies in Design and Material Culture

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Beskrivning

Architecture is more than buildings and architects. It also involves photographers, writers, advertisers and broadcasters, as well as the people who finance and live in the buildings. Using the career of the critic J. M. Richards as a lens, this book takes a new perspective on modern architecture. Richards served as editor of The Architectural Review from 1937 to 1971, during which time he consistently argued that modernism was integrally linked to vernacular architecture, not through style but through the principle of being an anonymous expression of a time and public spirit. Exploring the continuities in Richards’s ideas throughout his career disrupts the existing canon of architectural history, which has focused on abrupt changes linked to individual ‘pioneers’, encouraging us to think again about who is studied in architectural history and how they are researched.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-12-27
Mått:170 x 240 x 22 mm
Vikt:794 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Design and Material Culture
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Manchester University Press
ISBN:9781526143754

Utforska kategorier

Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria inom Historia och arkeologi
Arkitekturhistoria inom Kultur
Konsthistoria inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Jessica Kelly is Reader in Architectural and Design History at the University for the Creative Arts

Recensioner i media

'Jessica Kelly’s deeply researched study of Richards — less a biography than a critique — is, by her own definition, ‘a view from elsewhere in architectural history’ in which she eschews the accepted canon in favour of ‘a “revisioning” of the history of modern architecture’Neil Jackson, Architectural History

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction1 Critical connections: Jim Richards’ network 1924–382 What is wrong with architecture? The Architectural Press, the profession and the architectural public3 ‘Cranks and laymen’: Propaganda for modern architecture 1935–414 The Castles on the Ground: Reconstruction, public participation and the future of modernism, 1941–51 5 Stocktaking: The contesting voices of architectural criticism, 1951–61 6 ‘Life is Right, the Architect is Wrong’: Public participation and architectural criticism 1962–73PostscriptBibliographyIndex