Re-writing the History of the Recent Present: The New Brutalism to the New Parametricism
Dozens of contemporary historians and PhD students have re-researched the interpretations of the post-World War II years – from Pevsner, to Banham, to Jencks, to Frampton – and they have explicitly or implicitly revised these earlier interpretations. How do we write a new history of the recent present?"
This series of three open lunchtime lectures is delivered by Anthony Vidler and hosted by the AA PhD Programme.
Seminar One: From the New Empiricism to the New Brutalism
At 3pm a seminar for PhD students only will follow
The New Brutalism: Fact or Fiction?
Readings: Reyner Banham, “The New Brutalism,” Architectural Review, December 1955.
Anthony Vidler, Histories of the Recent Present, Chapter 4“Another Brick in the Wall,” October 136 (Spring 2011)
Image: Reyner Banham’s essay on The New Brutalism, first published December 1955