The Cité des Sciences at La Villette is the first of Mitterrand's Grands Projets to be finished. Reyner Banham explains how its vast spaces were created out of an abattoir and suggests that the building takes High-Tech another step, albeit a conventional one, towards civic architecture
In a piece extracted from his ‘New Society’ article, Reyner Banham identifies the Staatsgalerie’s contextural references to Stuttgart and discusses the cultural problems of an English architect who now works mostly in Germany and America
Banham adopts a new critical position to assess this canonical work of Post Modernism
Reyner Banham discusses the roles of Megastructure, Archigram and modern technology in Pompidou’s design
The faculty appears to spring apart from its surroundings, implying the self-confidence of knowing what you are about
Reyner Banham traces the historical changes in air-transportation that have rendered most airports permanently obsolete
Reyner Banham reports on one of the most imaginative and advanced community-building gestures of its day
Reyner Banham attempts to codify the then-emerging architectural movement of Brutalism
