| Title | : | NATØ: Narrative Architecture in Postmodern London |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Claire Jamieson |
| Release | : | 2017-01-20 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Art & Architecture, Books, Arts & Entertainment, Professional & Technical, Engineering, Nonfiction, Social Science, Society |
| Size | : | 20978105 |
| Chronicling the last radical architectural group of the twentieth century – NATØ (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 NATØ’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. NATØ has most often been documented in reference to Nigel Coates (the instigator of NATØ), which has led to a one-sided, one-dimensional record of NATØ’s place in architectural history. This book sets out a more detailed, contextual history of NATØ, told through photographs, drawings, and ephemera, restoring a truer polyvocal narrative of the group’s ethos and development. |
