Work
Theory and Design in the First Machine Age
Explore in the Atlas →Banham's revisionist history that exposed the gap between modernism's machine-age rhetoric and its actual formal academicism, reframing the movement's origins.
Production Ephemerality
Details
- Type
- Text
Classifications
- Holder
- Individual
- Source of authority
- ReasonObservation
- Subject
- Human centred
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Propositional
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Connections
- exemplifies Modernism
Referenced by
- Reyner Banham authored
Sources
- Reyner Banham. Theory and Design in the First Machine Age. The Architectural Press, 1960.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Theory and Design in the First Machine Age." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/work/theory-and-design-in-the-first-machine-age/. Accessed July 17, 2026.