Reyner Banham : historian of the immediate future / Nigel Whiteley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whiteley, Nigel.

Contributor:

EBSCOhost.

Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Banham, Reyner--Criticism and interpretation.

Banham, Reyner.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 494 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2002]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

An intellectual biography of the cultural critic Reyner Banham.

Contents:

1. The Mechanical Sensibility: The First Machine Age Revised

2. Popular Desires and Rough Poetry: The Independent Group, New Brutalism, and Architecture Autre

3. Science for Kicks: An Architecture of Technology for the Second Machine Age

4. The Expanded Field: Fit Environments for Human Activities

5. Late or Post?: Banham's Modernist Values

6. Expendable Icons and Softer Hardware: Banham's Design Criticism

Conclusion: Changing His Mind or Having It Both Ways?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-479) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

ISBN:

9780262286091

0262286092

Publisher Number:

99986150228

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.