NATØ: Narrative Architecture in Postmodern London

di Claire Jamieson (Autore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017

Chronicling the last radical architectural group of the twentieth century – NATØ (Narrative Architecture Today) – who emerged from the Architectural Association at the start of the 1980s, this book explores the group’s work which echoed a wider artistic and literary culture that drew on the specific political, social and physical condition of 1980s London. It traces NATØ’s identification with a particular stream of post-punk, postmodern expression: a celebration of the abject, an aesthetic of entropy, and a do-it-yourself provisionality. NATØ has most often been documented in reference to Nigel Coates (the instigator of NATØ), which has led to a one-sided, one-dimensional record of NATØ’s place in architectural history. This book sets out a more detailed, contextual history of NATØ, told through photographs, drawings, and ephemera, restoring a truer polyvocal narrative of the group’s ethos and development.

• Autore: Claire Jamieson
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Anno: 2017
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 272 p.
• Dimensioni: 246 x 174 mm
• Peso: 635 gr.
• EAN: 9781138674844

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