NATØ: Narrative Architecture in Postmodern London

Jamieson, Claire

Routledge（2017/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 272 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781138674844
• DDC分類 720.94212

Full Description

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.

Contents

Introduction 1. From Object to Action: Performing Architecture - 1973-81 2. A New Expressionism: Drawing Architecture - 1982-84 3. The Mise-en-Scène of the Magazine - 1983-84 4. Dreaming the City: Exhibiting Architecture - 1985-87 5. After NATØ Bibliography Index