Chronicling the last radical architectural group of the twentieth century - NAT� (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 NAT�'s identification with a particular stream of post-punk, postmodern expression: a celebration of the abject, an aesthetic of entropy, and a do-it ...
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Chronicling the last radical architectural group of the twentieth century - NAT� (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 NAT�'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. NAT� has most often been documented in reference to Nigel Coates (the instigator of NAT�), which has led to a one-sided, one-dimensional record of NAT�'s place in architectural history. This book sets out a more detailed, contextual history of NAT�, told through photographs, drawings, and ephemera, restoring a truer polyvocal narrative of the group's ethos and development.
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New. Contains: Halftones, black & white, Line drawings, black & white. Includes: line drawings, black & white, halftones, black & white. Intended for college/higher education audience.
