Reyner Banham and the Paradoxes of High Tech

Focusing on Reyner Banham's influential contributions to architectural discourse, this analysis explores his writings on High Tech architecture and its predecessors. Todd Gannon highlights Banham's dialectical approach, examining his relationships with movements like New Brutalism and his support for innovative design concepts from figures like Cedric Price and Archigram. The study also delves into Banham's late work, offering new insights from archival materials, including an unpublished draft introduction to his unfinished manuscript, "Making Architecture: The Paradoxes of High Tech."