Presents a series of essays by some of the leading critics on art, design, architecture and culture. This title is suitable for those interested in the world we have made. Editor(s): Atkinson, Harriet; Aynsley, Jeremy. Num Pages: 352 pages, 200 b&w and 32 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AK; AM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 252 x 198 x 22. Weight in Grams: 938. . 2009. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: The Banham Lectures. Essays on Designing the Future.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication Date: 2009
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1847883028
ISBN 13: 9781847883025
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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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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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).

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