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Gordon Cullen's illustrations enlivened the 'Outrage' special issue of June 1955.

Gordon Cullen's illustrations enlivened the 'Outrage' special issue of June 1955.

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The paper examines the reorientations of the appreciation of ugliness within different national contexts in a comparative or relational frame, juxtaposing the British, Italian, and Australian milieus, and to relate them to the ways in which the transformation of the urban fabric and the effect of suburbanization were perceived in the aforementioned...

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... on a national scale." 28 As Mathew Aitchison remarks, in "The Boyd Ultimatum", " [t]oday, many of the developments Nairn observed are commonplace but in the mid 1950s they were distinct enough to be grouped under one Nairn term, 'subtopia'. 29 Of great significance for the dissemination of Nairn's ideas were the illustrations by Gordon Cullen ( fig. 3), which have many similarities with Boyd's own illustrations in The Australian Ugliness. Particularly informative regarding Nairn's understanding of "subtopia" and "outrage" are the episodes of "Nairn Across Britain", which were released by BBC the same year as Reyner Banham's film "Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles", that is to say in ...
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... on a national scale." 28 As Mathew Aitchison remarks, in "The Boyd Ultimatum", " [t]oday, many of the developments Nairn observed are commonplace but in the mid 1950s they were distinct enough to be grouped under one Nairn term, 'subtopia'. 29 Of great significance for the dissemination of Nairn's ideas were the illustrations by Gordon Cullen ( fig. 3), which have many similarities with Boyd's own illustrations in The Australian Ugliness. Particularly informative regarding Nairn's understanding of "subtopia" and "outrage" are the episodes of "Nairn Across Britain", which were released by BBC the same year as Reyner Banham's film "Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles", that is to say in ...

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The article examines the impact of the study for Levittown of urban sociologist Herbert Gans on Denise Scott Brown’s thought. It scrutinizes Denise Scott Brown, Robert Venturi, and Steven Izenour’s ‘Remedial Housing for Architects or Learning from Levittown’ conducted in collaboration with their students at Yale University in 1970. Taking as its starting point Scott Brown’s endeavour to redefine functionalism in ‘Architecture as Patterns and Systems: Learning from Planning’, and ‘The Redefinition of Functionalism’, which were included in Architecture as Signs and Systems: For a Mannerist Time (2004), the article sheds light on the fact that the intention to shape a new way of conceiving functionalism was already present in Learning from Las Vegas, where Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour suggested an understanding of Las Vegas as pattern of activities. Particular emphasis is placed on Scott Brown’s understanding of ‘active socioplastics’, and on the impact of advocacy planning and urban sociology on her approach. At the core of the reflections developed in this article is the concept of ‘urban village’ that Gans uses in US in The Urban Villagers: Group and Class in the Life of Italian-Americans (1972) to shed light on the socio-anthropological aspects of inhabiting urban fabric.