Beschreibung:
This book uniquely brings to bear questions of urgent cultural relevance on critical design decisions. As such, it is of as much importance to architects, planners and students of design, as to students of cultural history, geography and film.
Chapter 1: How Brutalism defeated picturesque populism: parallels in film and architecture. Chapter 2: Why does your flat leak? Chapter 3: These walls have feelings: the interiors of Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby. Chapter 4: Wives and Lovers: the 1960s office interiors: Alfie, The Apartment and Darling. Chapter 5: Free circulation = Free copulation: women and roads in Nana and 2 or 3 Things I Know about Her. Chapter 6: Against the city of objects: Our Mutual Friend, Mary Poppins and LA Story.