The Banham Lectures: Essays on Designing the Future

ISBN-13: 9781847883025 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 352 str.

Harriet Atkinson

Opis

This volume presents a series of essays by leading critics on art, design, architecture and culture. All are inspired by the revolutionary work of Reyner Banham, who continues to be one of the greatest influences on Design and Architecture today. Integrating the study of pop art, industrial design and material culture for the first time, Banham's brilliant analyses of subjects--such as automobile styling, mobile homes, science fiction films, and our fondness for gadgets--anticipated many of our contemporary preoccupations. And just as Banham sought to overturn the views of previous generations, these critics aim to rethink the objects and buildings we use today. Provocative, engaged and inspired, The Banham Lectures is essential reading for anyone interested in the world we have made.

Recenzje

These lively essays by distinguished authors highlight both the importance of design history and Reyner Banham's highly influential contributions to that history. The book will introduce Banham's zany and original voice to a new generation of readers who may not yet know what a signal role he played in shaping our views of modern architecture, popular culture and twentieth-century design. Alice T. Friedman, Wellesley College

Spis treści

Foreword, Mary Banham Introduction, Jeremy Aynsley, Royal College of Art PART ONE: IN THE REAR-VIEW MIRROR: BANHAM REVISITED 1. The Art of the Well-Tempered Lecture: Reyner Banham and Le Corbusier, Tim Benton, Open University 2. Of Cars, Clothes and Carpets: Design Metaphors in Architectural Thought, Adrian Forty, University College London 3. Theory and Design: The Banham Factor, Gillian Naylor 4. Reyner Banham and Photography, Mark Haworth-Booth, London College of Communication 5. Peter Would Enjoy These: Looking at the Edges of the Architectural Vocabulary Peter Cook, University College London PART TWO: FROM VEHICLES OF DESIRE TO SUNDAE PAINTERS: SEEING THINGS THE BANHAM WAY 6. Sleeping Around: a History of American Beds and Bedrooms, Elizabeth Collins Cromley, Northeastern University, Boston 7. Flash Gordon and American Auto Design in the 1950s, Frank Dudas 8. A Paper Atlantis: Postcards, Mass Art and the American Scene, Jeffrey L. Meikle, University of Texas at Austin 9. As Long as it's Pink: from Production to Consumption in Twentieth Century Design, Penny Sparke, Kingston University 10. Saul Bass: A Life in Design and Film; Saul and Elaine Bass: A Collaboration in Film and Life, Pat Kirkham, Bard Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York PART THREE: AN ARCHITECTURE AUTRE? LOOKING AT THE OVERLOOKED 11. Architecture and the Museum: A Relationship Between Form and Function, Charles Saumarez Smith, Royal Academy, London 12. Non-Plan Revisited: Or the Real Way Cities Grow, Paul Barker, writer, broadcaster, former Editor of New Society 13. Time: Architecture's Touchstone, Cedric Price 14. Enclosed by Images: Architecture in the Post-Sputnik Age, Beatriz Colomina, Princeton University PART FOUR: APPARATUS, CLIP-ON, GIZMO, SOFTWARE, HIGH-TECH: FUTURISM, DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY 15. An Historian of Science and Technology Confronts Gender and Design, Ruth Schwartz Cowan, University of Pennsylvania 16. Materials and Dematerialization: The Future of Industrial Design, Tomas Maldonado, Polytechnic of Milan 17. Marcel Duchamp's White Box notes, Richard Hamilton 18. Designing the Future: an Industrial Designer's Perspective, Tom Karen, Director of Ogle Design 19. Rotwang and Sons: The Soul of the Designer in the Machine Age, Christopher Frayling, Royal College of Art, London General Bibliography Bibliography of Banham's Writings

O autorze

Jeremy Aynsley is Professor of Design History and founding Director of the Centre for Design History at the University of Brighton, UK. Harriet Atkinson is a historian of design and culture, and Researcher at the Centre for Design History at the University of Brighton, UK. She is currently Principal Investigator on the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project, '"The Materialization of Persuasion": Modernist Exhibitions in Britain for Propaganda and Resistance, 1933 to 1953' and has written extensively on the history and theory of exhibitions. She is the author of Festival of Britain (Bloomsbury, 2012) and co-editor, with Jeremy Aynsley, of The Banham Lectures (Bloomsbury, 2009), and with Verity Clarkson and Sarah A. Lichtman, of Exhibitions Beyond Boundaries (Bloomsbury, 2022).