Main entry:

Fierro, Annette, author. aut

Title & Author:

Architectures of the technopolis : Archigram and the British High Tech / Annette Fierro.

Publication:

London : Lund Humphries, 2023.
©2023

Description:

224 pages : illustrations (color), plans ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-219) and index.
Preface : from there to here and back again -- Utopias past to politics present : the elusive garden -- Drawing on engineering : authenticity and its distractions -- Urban theatricality : rhetoric, gadgets and the monsters they create -- Disjunction and connection : urban infrastructures and their great narrative constructs -- War and its inscriptions : iconography and commemoration -- Epilogue : technology, a spectral presence.

Summary:

"Comparing the work of Archigram and High-Tech architects thematically, this book explores the historical and cultural context of London to reveal their influences and interconnections and why two such radical groups emerged from a seemingly conservative city. This book examines the relationships between the work of Archigram and that of the British High-Tech architects, groups that were based in London and developing in the 1960's and 70's. While one group consisted of academics and artists known for their humour and eccentricity and the other were a group of deadly serious architects emerging to international proliference, this book argues that they shared uncannily similar impulses. There is the self-evident commonality of language: overblown machines, kits-of-parts of pieces and components, and a disintegration of building as object in favour of the constituent elements. Underlying both movements is a mutual, undying optimism in technological process and technological expression. Set within the rich history and culture of London, the book makes its comparisons by exploring central shared ideas: utopia, engineering, theatricality, infrastructure and narrative, and the iconography of war machinery"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781848226319 (hardback)
1848226314

Subject:

Archigram (Group)
Architecture England London History.
Architecture Angleterre Londres Histoire.
Architecture
Buildings
London (England) Buildings, structures, etc.
England London

Form/genre:

History
Illustrated works.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 322964
Call No.: 322964
Copy: 1
Status: Available