Title & Author:

The Banham lectures : essays on designing the future / edited by Jeremy Aynsley and Harriet Atkinson ; with a foreword by Mary Banham.

Edition:

English ed.

Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2009.

Description:

xii, 306 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), plans ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references 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 -- Non-plan revisited: or the real way cities grow / Paul Barker -- Time: architecture's touchstone / Cedric Price -- Enclosed by images: architecture in the post-Sputnik age / Beatriz Colomina -- Apparatus, clip-on, gizmo, software, high-tech: futurism, design and technology. A historian of science and technology confronts gender and design / Ruth Schwartz Cowan -- Materials and dematerialization: the future of industrial design / Tomás Maldonado -- An unknown object of four dimensions / Richard Hamilton -- Designing the future: an industrial designer's perspective / Tom Karen Rotwang and Sons: the soul of the designer in the machine age / Christopher Frayling -- Select bibliography of writings on Peter Reyner Banham, 1988-2009.

Summary:

"Rayner Banham is one of the greatest influences on Design and Architecture today. His work anticipated many of our contemporary preoccupations, integrating the study of pop art, industrial design and material culture for the first time. His interests strayed across an extraordinary range of subjects - from automobile styling to mobile homes and from science fiction films to our passion for gadgets - and his brilliant analyses remain landmarks in cultural and design criticism." "The Banham Lectures brings together leading critics who continue to be inspired by Banham s revolutionary work. Each presents their own analysis of a key issue in design, architecture or art. These essays explore topics as diverse as clothes and carpets, photography, the history of bedrooms, 'Flash Gordon' and the car, postcards and popular art, how cities grow, the architecture of museums, Marcel Duchamp, dematerialisation, and the future of design. Just as Banham sought to overturn the views of previous generations, these critics aim to rethink the objects and buildings we use today."--Jacket.

ISBN:

9781847883025 (hbk.)
1847883028 (hbk.)

Subject:

Banham, Reyner Influence.
Banham, Reyner.
Design History 20th century.
Design Philosophy.
Design Histoire 20e siècle.
Design Philosophie.
Design.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Form/genre:

Lectures.
History.

Added entries:

Aynsley, Jeremy.
Atkinson, Harriet.

Essays on designing the future

Holdings:

Location: Library main 269474
Call No.: BIB 201726
Status: Available