NATO: NARRATIVE ARCHITECTURE IN POSTMODERN LONDON by Claire Jamieson ( 9781317200031 )

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NATO: NARRATIVE ARCHITECTURE IN POSTMODERN LONDON

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ISBN 10:

1317200039

ISBN 13:

9781317200031

Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

12 January, 2017

Pages:

280

Synopsis:

Chronicling the last radical architectural group of the 20th century - NATO (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 emerged from the specific political, social and physical condition of 1980s London. It traces NATO'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. NATO have most often been documented in reference to Nigel Coates (the instigator of NATO), which has led to a one-sided, one-dimensional record of NATO's place in architectural history. This book sets out a more detailed, contextual history of NATO, told through photographs, drawings, and ephemera, restoring a truer polyvocal narrative of the group's ethos and development.

Illustrations:

31 Line drawings, black and white; 69 Halftones, black and white

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Imprint:

Routledge

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Non-returnable

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