- Hardcover: 514 pages
- Publisher: MIT Press; illustrated edition edition (23 Jan 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0262232162
- ISBN-13: 978-0262232166
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 18.5 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,333,391 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Nigel Whiteley's timely assessment is engaging and important."-- Iain Finlayson, ""London Times""
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"Nigel Whiteley's brilliant analysis has the energy and scope of Banham's best writing..." Robert Fishman The Washington Post Book World "Nigel Whiteley's timely assessment is engaging and important." Iain Finlayson London Times "Whitely does an excellent job of presenting the many complex layers of Banham's achievements as a historian and critic." Eric Mumford Architectural Record "Nigel Whiteley's brilliant analysis has the energy and scope of Banham's best writing..." Robert Fishman The Washington Post Book World
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Although I slightly knew Banham before I started my PhD, it was only then that the interesting parallels between his thought and those of 1990s techno-enthusiast thinkers was brought to my attention. There is, however, a lot more to this book than a genealogy of modern architectural technophilia. It not only offers the reader a comprehensive study of Banham's development without becoming too biographical, but also can be read as a valuable survey of post-war architectural thought taking the reader through `the mechanical sensibility' to `popular desires and rough poetry' and `science for kicks', to cite but a few of the book's chapter titles. Banham's journey throughout his career, as shown here, also raises by implication the question of whether architectural criticism can influence the ways in which we design our environments. We can find the young Banham inspiring and being inspired by the thriving post-war modern utopianism ending up struggling to come in terms with the postmodernist havoc sweeping through architectural thought in his later life rendering his earlier avant-garde pledges rather inconsequential.
Although I managed to read the book in its entirety and found it an academically valuable volume, probably not everyone needs to go through the whole of this 400+-page text, in which case I strongly recommend the conclusion, as there is a lot more than a few closing paragraphs to it, summing up Banham with a lot more fresh evidence and arguments not presented in previous chapters. Altogether an essential read many will probably find containing all they need to know about this seminal late 20th century figure.
Although I managed to read the book in its entirety and found it an academically valuable volume, probably not everyone needs to go through the whole of this 400+-page text, in which case I strongly recommend the conclusion, as there is a lot more than a few closing paragraphs to it, summing up Banham with a lot more fresh evidence and arguments not presented in previous chapters. Altogether an essential read many will probably find containing all they need to know about this seminal late 20th century figure.
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