02753nam a22003257a 4500 pucpr 20241007153043.0 230914t20232023enkaeo b 001 0 eng d 9781848226319 1848226314 pucpr eng pucpr pucpr rda CARIBET NA970 F54 2023 Fierro, Annette, author. Architectures of the technopolis : Archigram and the British High Tech. / Annette Fierro. txt London : Lund Humphries, 2023. 224 p. : ill. ; photo. ; plans ; col. ; 25 cm. book rdacontent text txt rdacontent still image txt rdamedia unmediated n rdacarrier volume nc 1. Utopias Past to Politics Present: The Elusive Garden -- 2. Drawing on Engineering: Authenticity and Its Detractors -- 3. Urban Theatricality: Rhetoric, Gadgets, and the Monsters They Create -- 4. Disjunction and Connection: Urban Infrastructures and their Great Narrative Constructs -- 5. War and its Inscriptions: Iconography and Commemoration -- Epilogue: Technology, Spectral Presence -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Comparing the work of Archigram and High-Tech architects thematically, this book explores the historical and cultural context of London to reveal their influences and interconnections and why two such radical groups emerged from a seemingly conservative city. This book examines the relationships between the work of Archigram and that of the British High-Tech architects, groups that were based in London and developing in the 1960s and 70s. While one group consisted of academics and artists known for their humour and eccentricity and the other were a group of deadly serious architects emerging to international proliference, this book argues that they shared uncannily similar impulses. There is the self-evident commonality of language: overblown machines, kits-of-parts of pieces and components, and a disintegration of building as object in favour of the constituent elements. Underlying both movements is a mutual, undying optimism in technological process and technological expression. Set within the rich history and culture of London, the book makes its comparisons by exploring central shared ideas: utopia, engineering, theatricality, infrastructure and narrative, and the iconography of war machinery.- Información de la editorial Archigram (Group) Archigram 301622 Architecture, Modern 20th century 196974 London Architecture 54081 Innovation London, England 298801 lcc 27 NA970 General F54 2023 302882 302882 0 0 lcc 0 0 4 4 33 2024-06-04 Amazon 62.12 0 General NA970 F54 2023 91000000073809 2024-10-07 15:33:40 1 72.12 2024-06-04 27