Re-writing the History of the Recent Present: From Townscape to Postmodernism 2/3

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 Two: From Townscape to Postmodernism

At 3pm a seminar for PhD students only will follow
Rethinking the Modern Picturesque
Readings: Ivor de Wolfe, and Gordon Cullen, “Townscape,” Architectural Review, 106 (December 1949):355-362; Anthony Vidler, “Troubles in Theory: Part 2: Picturesque to Postmodernism,” Architectural Review, Vol. 231, No. 1379, pp. 78-86.