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020			_a9781580935401 _qhardcover
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100	1		_aBanham, Reyner, _eauthor. _932436
245	1	0	_aMegastructure : _burban futures of the recent past / _cReyner Banham ; foreword by Todd Gannon.
250			_aFacsimile edition.
264		1	_aNew York, New York : _bThe Monacelli Press, _c[2020]
264		4	_c©2020
300			_a232 pages : _billustrations, plans ; _c26 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
362			_a2020.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (page 227) and index.
505	0		_aForeword / Todd Gannon -- Introduction: dinosaurs of the modern movement -- Antecedents, analogies and mégastructures trouvées -- Beginners and begetters -- Megayear 1964 -- Fun and flexibility -- Megacity Montreal -- Megastructure in academe -- Megadecadence: acceptability and exploitation -- Epilogue: the meaning of megastructure -- Appendix: Maki on megastructure.
520	8		_aIt is an architectural concept as alluring as it is elusive, as futuristic as it is primordial. "Megastructure" is what it sounds like: a vastly scaled edifice that can contain potentially countless uses, contexts, and adaptations. Theorized and briefly experimented with in built form in the 1960s, megastructures almost as quickly went out of fashion in the profession. But Reyner Banham's 1976 book compiled the origin stories and ongoing mythos of this visionary movement, seeking to chart its lively rise, rapid fall, and ongoing meaning. Now back in print after decades and with original editions fetching well over $100 on the secondary market, 'Megastructure: Urban Futures of the Recent Past' is part of the recent surge in attention to this quixotic form, of which some examples were built but to this day remains -- decades after its codification -- more of a poetic idea than a real architectural type. Banham, among the most gifted and incisive architectural critics and historians of his time, sought connections between theoretical origins in Le Corbusier's more starry-eyed drawings to the flurry of theories by the Japanese Metabolist architects, to less intentional examples in military architecture, industry, infrastructure, and the emerging instances in pop culture and art. Had he written the book a few years later he would find an abundance of examples in speculative art and science fiction cinema, mediums where it continues to provoke wonder to this day. A long-sought study by an author who combined imagination, wit, and pioneering scholarship, the republication of Megastructure is an opportunity for scholars and laypeople alike to return to the origins of this fantastic urban idea.
650		0	_aMegastructures. _9122078
650		0	_aCity planning.
650		7	_aCity planning. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00862177 _9122079
650		7	_aMegastructures. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01015574 _9122078
700	1		_aGannon, Todd, _ewriter of foreword. _9122080
775	0		_iReproduction of (manifestation): _aBanham, Reyner. _tMegastructure _dLondon : Thames and Hudson, 1976. _h224 p. : ill., plans ; 26 cm. (DLC) 78307289
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