Bøger af Nigel Whiteley

Volume # 28 of "IT Revolution in Architecture", "Penezi¿ + Rogina" covers one of the most interesting international architectural studio. Extremely active in the field of IT not only in experimental works but also in the concrete realization of architectures, P+R participated with major installations at Biennale of Venice since 2000 and competed relevant buildings in Croatia. Nigel Whiteley (1953-2010) was professor of Visual Arts at Lancaster University. He has lectured in several countries. His books include "Reyner Banham: Historian of the Immediate Future", "DesignFor Society", and "Pop Design - Modernism to Mod". His essays ha been published in major magazines. "IT Revolution in Architecture" is a book series initiated by Birkhäuser in 1999 and now published by Edilstampa, ANCE Rome. Founder and editor since its first publication with Testo&mmagine is Antonino Saggio. http://www.arc1.Uniroma1.it/Saggio/IT/

Although design has become eminently newsworthy among the general public in our society, there is very little understanding to be found of the values and implications that underlie it. This book analyses design's role and status, and discusses what our obsession with it tells us about our own culture.