{"product_id":"a-critic-writes-selected-essays-by-reyner-banham-centennial-books-9780520219441","title":"A Critic Writes Selected Essays by Reyner Banham","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e Foreword by Peter Hall \u003cbr\u003e 1950s\u003cbr\u003e 1. Vehicles of Desire\u003cbr\u003e 2. The New Brutalism\u003cbr\u003e 3. Ornament and Crime: The Decisive Contribution of Adolf Loos\u003cbr\u003e 4. Ungrab That Gondola \u003cbr\u003e 5. Machine Aesthetes \u003cbr\u003e 6. Unesco House \u003cbr\u003e 7. The Glass Paradise \u003cbr\u003e 8. Primitives of a Mechanized Art \u003cbr\u003e The 1960s\u003cbr\u003e 9.  Stocktaking \u003cbr\u003e 10. Alienation of Parts \u003cbr\u003e 11. Design by Choice \u003cbr\u003e 12. Carbonorific \u003cbr\u003e 13. Big Doug, Small Piece \u003cbr\u003e 14. Old Number One \u003cbr\u003e 15. Kent and Capability \u003cbr\u003e The Dymaxicrat \u003cbr\u003e 17. The Style for the Job \u003cbr\u003e 18. How I Learnt to Live with the Norwich Union \u003cbr\u003e 19. People's Palaces \u003cbr\u003e 20. The Great Gizmo \u003cbr\u003e 21. Aviary, London Zoological Gardens \u003cbr\u003e 22. Unlovable at Any Speed \u003cbr\u003e 23. Roadscape with Rusting Nails \u003cbr\u003e 24. History Faculty, Cambridge \u003cbr\u003e 25. The Wilderness Years of Frank Lloyd Wright \u003cbr\u003e The 1970s \u003cbr\u003e 26. Power of Trent and Aire \u003cbr\u003e 27. The Crisp at the Crossroads \u003cbr\u003e 28. The Historian on the Pier \u003cbr\u003e 29. The Master Builders \u003cbr\u003e 30. Rank Values \u003cbr\u003e 31. Paleface Trash \u003cbr\u003e 32. Power Plank \u003cbr\u003e 33. Iron Bridge Embalmed \u003cbr\u003e 34. Sundae Painters \u003cbr\u003e 35. Bricologues a Ia Lanterne \u003cbr\u003e 36. Lair of the Looter \u003cbr\u003e 37. Valley of the Dams \u003cbr\u003e 38. Grass Above, Glass Around\u003cbr\u003e 39. Summa Galactica \u003cbr\u003e 40. Pevsner's Progress \u003cbr\u003e 41. Taking It With You \u003cbr\u003e 42. Hotel Deja-quoi? \u003cbr\u003e 43. Valentino: Simply Filed Away \u003cbr\u003e The 1980s \u003cbr\u003e 44. The Haunted Highway \u003cbr\u003e 45. Dead on the Fault \u003cbr\u003e 46. 0, Bright Star ... \u003cbr\u003e 47. Stirling Escapes the Hobbits \u003cbr\u003e 48. Fiat: The Phantom of Order \u003cbr\u003e 49. Modern Monuments \u003cbr\u003e 50. Building Inside Out \u003cbr\u003e 51. In the Neighborhood of Art \u003cbr\u003e On the Wings of Wonder \u003cbr\u003e 53. Actual Monuments \u003cbr\u003e 54. A Black Box: The Secret Profession of Architecture \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Index \u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864842023255,"sku":"9780520219441","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520219441.jpg?v=1722273226","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-critic-writes-selected-essays-by-reyner-banham-centennial-books-9780520219441","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}