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020			_a978-1580935401
082			_aARCH _bBAN
100			_aBanham, Reyner
245		0	_aMegastructure: Urban Futures of the Recent Past
260			_a. _bThe Monacelli Press _c2020
300			_a232p. _c22.45 x 2.36 x 26.16 cm _rHardcover
504			_aMegastructure: 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.
650			_aArchitectural criticism
650			_aArchitecture
650			_aHistory-criticism
650			_aInfrastructure
650			_aPolitical Theory
942			_cBKS
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