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Book SynopsisBorn and trained in England and a US resident starting in 1976, Reyner Banham wrote incisively about American and European buildings and culture. This title presents a chronological cross-section of essays, polemics, and reviews drawn from more than three decades of Banham's writings.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
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
