Reyner Banham (1922–88) was a prolific, iconoclastic critic of modern architecture, cities, and mass culture in Britain and the United States, and his provoca

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Reyner Banham and the Paradoxes of High Tech reassesses one of the most influential voices in twentieth-century architectural history through a detailed examina

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This volume presents a chronologically ordered and detailed account of the developing relationship between technics and poetics in environmental design in archi