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Description
Chronicling the last radical architectural group of the twentieth century - NAT (Narrative Architecture Today) - who emerged from the Architectural Association at the start of the 1980s, this book explores the group's work which echoed a wider artistic and literary culture that drew on the specific political, social and physical condition of 1980s London. It traces NAT 's identification with a particular stream of post-punk, postmodern expression: a celebration of the abject, an aesthetic of entropy, and a do-it-yourself provisionality. NAT has most often been documented in reference to Nigel Coates (the instigator of NAT ), which has led to a one-sided, one-dimensional record of NAT 's place in architectural history. This book sets out a more detailed, contextual history of NAT , told through photographs, drawings, and ephemera, restoring a truer polyvocal narrative of the group's ethos and development.
About the Author
Claire Jamieson completed her PhD in the department of Critical and Historical Studies at the Royal College of Art in 2015. She is currently a lecturer in Contextual and Theoretical Studies at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, UK.