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Gathering twenty essays written over twenty years, Figments of the
Architectural Imagination explores the frontiers of speculative
architectural design, theory, and pedagogy to offer clear-eyed and
incisive treatments of some of the most important projects,
practices, and polemics at work making contemporary architecture
contemporary. These sharp and insightful texts, whether addressing
the impact of digital technology, the design of an effective hotel,
the emergence of the Los Angeles vanguard, or the proper execution
of a thesis project, combine frontline reportage, archival
scholarship, trenchant prose, and impressive critical acumen to cut
through the cacophony of recent architectural discourse with
uncommon clarity, intelligence, rigor, and wit. Taken together,
these essays provide essential orientation for practitioners,
academics, students, and aficionados hoping to understand how
contemporary architecture came to be where it is and to speculate
on where it might go next.
Reyner Banham and the Paradoxes of High Tech reassesses one of the
most influential voices in twentieth-century architectural history
through a detailed examination of Banham's writing on High Tech
architecture and its immediate antecedents. Taking as a guide
Banham's habit of structuring his writings around dialectical
tensions, Todd Gannon sheds new light on Banham's early engagement
with the New Brutalism of Alison and Peter Smithson, his measured
enthusiasm for the "clip-on" approach developed by Cedric Price and
the Archigram group, his advocacy of "well- tempered environments"
fostered by integrated mechanical and electrical systems, and his
late- career assessments of High Tech practitioners such as Norman
Foster, Richard Rogers, and Renzo Piano.Gannon devotes significant
attention to Banham'slate work, including fresh archival
materialsrelated to Making Architecture: The Paradoxes ofHigh Tech,
the manu-script he left unfinished athis death in 1988. For the
first time, readers will have access to Banham's previously
unpublished draft introduction to that book.
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