The Banham lectures : essays on designing the future / edited by Jeremy Aynsley and Harriet Atkinson ; with a foreword by Mary Banham.
| Other author | Aynsley, Jeremy. |
| Other author | Atkinson, Harriet. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | English ed. |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2009. |
| Description | xii, 306 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), plans ; 26 cm |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Essays on designing the future |
| Contents | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN | 9781847883025 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 1847883028 (hbk.) |