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Mediating modernism: architectural cultures in Britain

Table of contents:

Introduction

1. Making it New: the discourses of architecture and modernism in Britain

2. The Mission of Modernism: James Richards and the Architectural Review

3. The Forgetting of Art: the Abercrombie plan for post-war London

4. The shift to the specific: the new interpretation of materiality in Brutalism and the Functional Tradition

5. The Opposite of Architecture: Archigram and Architectural Design in the sixties

6. Searching for the Subject: Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural Association School

7. Architecture as Discourse: Rethinking the culture of architecture