Main entry:

Banham, Reyner.

Title & Author:

Design by choice / Reyner Banham ; edited by Penny Sparke.

Publication:

New York : Rizzoli, 1981.

Description:

152 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm.

Series:

Ideas in architecture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Twentieth-century architecture -- history, theory and criticism -- History and psychiatry -- Sant'Elia -- The glass paradise -- Mendelsohn -- The last formgiver -- The machine aesthetic -- Stocktaking -- A home is not a house -- Towards a Pop architecture -- Zoom wave hits architecture -- Pub-shape and landlubber fashion -- Encounter with Sunset Boulevard -- Coventry Cathedral -- The style for the job -- National monument -- Grass above, glass around -- Pop culture -- theory and design -- The atavism of the short-distance mini-cyclist -- A throw-away aesthetic -- Who is this 'Pop'? -- Design by choice -- The great Gizmo -- (Thinks): think! -- Radio machismo -- A grid on two farthings -- The end of insolence -- Night, Mrs. Jagbag -- Horse of a different colour -- I'd crawl a mile for ... Playboy -- Coffin-nails in handy packs -- Triumph of software -- Summa Galactica.

ISBN:

0847803848
9780847803842
0856705942
9780856705946

Subject:

Banham, Reyner, 1922-1988.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architectural design.
Architecture Composition, proportion, etc.
Architecture, Modern.
Design History 20th century.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Design architectural.
Architecture Composition, proportions, etc.
Industriedesign
Pop-Kultur

Form/genre:

Books.

Added entries:

Sparke, Penny.
Ideas in architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 7249
Call No.: PO1120
Status: Available