Reyner Banham and the Paradoxes of High Tech

by Todd Gannon

Reyner Banham and the Paradoxes of High Tech reassesses one of the most influential voices in twentieth-century architectural history through a detailed examination of Banham's writing on High Tech architecture and its immediate antecedents.

Taking as a guide Banham's habit of structuring his writings around dialectical tensions, Todd Gannon sheds new light on Banham's early engagement with the New Brutalism of Alison and Peter Smithson,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606065300
• ISBN13: 9781606065303
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Getty Research Institute
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 4.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 9.9" x 11.0"