Higgott, Andrew

Mediating modernism : architectural cultures in Britain / Andrew Higgott - London : Routledge, 2006

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction -- Making it new: the discourses of architecture and modernism in Britain -- The mission of modernism: James Richards and the architectural review -- The forgetting of art: the Abercrombie plan for post-war London -- The shift to the specific: the new interpretation of materiality in brutalism and the functional tradition -- The opposite of architecture: archigram and architectural design in the sixties -- Searching for the subject: Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural Association School -- Architecture as discourse: rethinking the culture of architecture

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Architectural criticism--History--Great Britain--20th century
Architecture, Modern--Philosophy--20th century
Architecture--Great Britain--20th century