Mediating Modernism: Architectural Cultures in BritainWell illustrated, Mediating Modernism demonstrates how architectural books and journals have created the architectural culture of the twentieth century and that nowhere is this truer than in Britain. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
the discourses of architecture and modernism in Britain | 3 |
James Richards and the Architectural Review | 33 |
the Abercrombie Plan for postwar London | 57 |
the new interpretation of materiality in Brutalism and the Functional Tradition | 85 |
Archigram and Architectural Design in the 1960s | 117 |
Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural Association School | 153 |
rethinking the culture of architecture | 189 |
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