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Too Good to Be True: The Survival of English Everyday PoMo
Author(s) -
Rattenbury Kester
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1300
Subject(s) - modernism (music) , humanism , authoritarianism , architecture , art history , everyday life , aesthetics , art , sociology , history , law , visual arts , political science , politics , democracy
Abstract ‘Intelligent, eclectic, witty, profoundly humanistic, and keen to debunk an inflexible, elitist and dangerously authoritarian Modernism’: Kester Rattenbury evokes the spirit of early British Post‐Modernism. She reminds us of how in the early 1980s it spearheaded a spirited community architecture that played a strategic role in protest against wholesale, motorway‐led redevelopments and the survival of Convent Garden. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.