Book, Theory and design in the first machine age[LS]

Banham, historian and critic of contemporary architecture and pop culture, whose texts influenced a generation of architects and historians of modern architecture, faces the emptying of modern architecture in the 1950s to safeguard that of the 1960s. In this book, he questions the position of historiography of modern architecture between the 1930s and 1960s, regarding the idea of ​​the break with academic tradition, as well as the linear continuity of the ideas of the arts and crafts movement and 19th century engineering in 20th century architecture.