Banham lectures essays on designing the future

Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-284) and index.

In the rear-view mirror: Banham revisited. The art of the well-tempered lecture: Banham and Le Corbusier / Tim Benton -- Of cars, clothes and carpets: design metaphors in architectural thought / Adrian Forty -- Theory and design: the Banham factor / Gillian Naylor -- Reyner Banham and photography / Mark Haworth-Booth -- Peter would enjoy these: looking at the edges of the architectural vocabulary plus a description of the Kunsthaus Graz / Peter Cook -- From vehicles of desire to sundae painters: seeing things the Banham way. Sleeping around: a history of American beds and bedrooms / Elizabeth Collins Cromley -- Flash Gordon and American auto design in the 1950s / Frank Dudas -- A paper Atlantis: postcards, mass art and the American scene / Jeffrey L. Meikle -- From production to consumption in twentieth-century design / Penny Sparke -- Saul Bass: a life in design and film; Saul and Elaine Bass: a collaboration in film and life / Pat Kirkham -- Une architecture autre? looking at the overlooked. Architecture and the museum: a relationship between form and function / Charles Saumarez Smith --

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"The Banham Lectures 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. CONTRIBUTORS: Mary Banham, Paul Barker, Tim Benton, Beatriz Colomina, Peter Cook, Elizabeth Collins Cromley, Frank Dudas, Adrian Forty, Christopher Frayling, Richard Hamilton, Mark Haworth-Booth, Tom Karen Pat Kirkham, Tomas Maldonado, Jeffrey L. Meikle, Gillian Naylor, Cedric Price, Ruth Schwartz-Cowan, Charles Saumarez Smith, Penny Sparke."--

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