Reyner Banham
IT REMAINS A REMARKABLE FACT that the academic history of modern architecture was launched by someone who obsessed about the tail fins on automobiles, the fur lining of Jane Fonda’s spacecraft in Barbarella, the paintwork on ice-cream vans, and the plastic knobs on transistor radios. After decades of self-congratulatory writing by an army of promoters about the supposedly functional mode of building, Peter Reyner Banham rode in on a fold-up bicycle to demystify modern architecture. It had apparently only pretended to be modern, frivolously flirting with the new technologies that should have revolutionized it to the core.
It is hard to think of a figure who did more to reshape the architectural discourse of the second half of the last century than Banham, the author of an astonishing array of seminal books and more than articles, as well as a frequent contributor to television and radio programs. Yet it is only now that this first monograph on the pivotal figure appears and one of his most important books is reissued. Thirteen years after his death, it would seem that Banham’s legacy is finally ripe for discussion.
The delay in examining Banha
Reyner Banham
Nigel Whiteley&#;s brilliant analysis has the energy and scope of Banham&#;s best writing ~The Washington Post Book World
Nigel Whiteley's timely assessment is engaging and important. ~London Times
Whitely does an excellent job of presenting the many complex layers of Banham's achievements as a historian and critic. ~Architectural Record
Reyner Banham's wide-ranging explorations of modern architecture, commercial design, pop culture, and radical urbanism bristled with so many provocative insights that his career's trajectory resisted clear understanding. Now, fortunately, Nigel Whiteley has skillfully reconstructed the personal experiences and intellectual contexts from which Banham emerged as one of the late twentieth-century's most idiosyncratic and perpetually rewarding cultural critics. ~Jeffrey L. Meikle, Chair, Department of American Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Nigel Whiteley ingeniously pulls together the various strands of Reyner Banham's thought. He charts the development of Banham's diverse interests and provides a much-needed critical analysis of his long career as a historian and critic of architecture and design.
Banham combines many years as a Corporate Executive reporting into the highest levels of multinationals - most recently to the CEO of Oracle, Larry Ellison - with a deep grasp of history. With a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Hertfordshire and a PhD in History from the Australian Defence Force Academy he takes an academic approach to the scientific application of the capitalisation of intangible heritage. Sounds complex? It's not. Customers and citizens simply respond to roots and nostalgia; their own, and those of the organisations who serve them.Every organisation, Public or Private, can turn intangible history and heritage into active goodwill.
Qualifications & Experience
Banham is the Honorary Editor of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Hong Kong. He has worked with a number of governments on cultural heritage, including hosting visits from foreign dignitaries up to Prime Minister level. He has has helped with and/or appeared in historical television and radio documentaries in Canada, Hong Kong, and the UK, working with companies such as TVB, the History Channel, BBC, and Channel 4. This includes interviews at the Peninsula Hotel for
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« Aussi incroyable que cela paraisse, bien des esprits cultivés se représentent aujourd&#;hui encore les docks tels que par exemple les décrivait Quentin Hughes dans Seaport : entrepôts s&#;élevant à des hauteurs vertigineuses, mâts, grues, cheminées se découpant sur le ciel, plus quelques pittoresques trotzkystes à cache-nez de soie portant des caisses ou des ballots et s&#;enivrant quelque peu avant de finir devant le tribunal. Mais cette imagerie est aujourd&#;hui morte ; tous ces clichés sur le grouillement coloré des ports appartiennent à un monde mort.
On ne voit plus les richesses du monde s&#;entasser sur plusieurs étages dans l&#;entrejambe de la Tamise. Les docks, inexorablement, s&#;étendent et glissent vers les chevilles des estuaires. Ainsi, sur la Mersey, les opérations portuaires ne s&#;effectuent plus dans les limites de l&#;Albert Dock de Jesse Hartley ; elles se sont étalées tout le long de la Dock Road et vont bientôt rejoindre la mer, avec les nouvelles installations géantes construites en face des jolies terrasses marines de Crosby. À Tilbury, le port de Londres
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