TY  - BOOK
AU  - Banham, Reyner 
TI  - Megastructure: Urban Futures of the Recent Past
SN  - 978-1580935401
U1  - ARCH 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - .
PB  - The Monacelli Press
KW  - Architectural criticism
KW  - Architecture
KW  - History-criticism
KW  - Infrastructure
KW  - Political Theory
N1  - Megastructure: Urban Futures of the Recent Past is part of the recent surge in attention to this quixotic form, of which some examples were built but to this day remains-decades after its codification-more of a poetic idea than a real architectural type.Banham, among the most gifted and incisive architectural critics and historians of his time, sought connections between theoretical origins in Le Corbusier's more starry-eyed drawings to the flurry of theories by the Japanese Metabolist architects, to less intentional examples in military architecture, industry, infrastructure, and the emerging instances in pop culture and art. Had he written the book a few years later he would find an abundance of examples in speculative art and science fiction cinema, mediums where it continues to provoke wonder to this day. A long-sought study by an author who combined imagination, wit, and pioneering scholarship, the republication of Megastructure is an opportunity for scholars and laypeople alike to return to the origins of this fantastic urban idea
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