NATØ: Narrative Architecture in Postmodern London Paperback / softback
by Claire Jamieson
Paperback / softback
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.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages, 31 Line drawings, black and white; 69 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:03/01/2017
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- ISBN:9781138674844
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages, 31 Line drawings, black and white; 69 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:03/01/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9781138674844
