Making A Spectacle Of Society: Thoughts on Surreality. (1st March 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Coates, Nigel
• Other Names: Spiller Neil guestEditor.
• Is Part Of: Architectural design. Volume 88:Number 2(2018)
• Page Start: 42
• Page End: 49
• Publication Date: 2018-03-01
• Subjects: County Hall -- 'ArkAlbion' exhibition -- Architectural Association (AA) -- London -- Vauxhall Gardens -- Kennington -- River Thames -- Voxtacity -- André Breton -- Louis Aragon -- Paul Éluard -- Futurism -- Dada -- Lettrism -- Vorticism -- Cubism -- Surrealism -- Salvador Dalí -- Mae West -- Ghislaine Wood -- Carlo Mollino -- Casa Devalle -- Turin -- Architectural Association (AA) -- Situationist International -- 'psychogeography' -- 'Surrealist Map of the World' -- Guy Debord -- 'The Naked City' -- Marquis de Sade -- Oscar Wilde, Joe Orton -- Francis Bacon -- Bauhaus -- Le Corbusier -- Meret Oppenheim -- Giorgio de Chirico -- Frederick Kiesler -- Man Ray -- Tokyo -- The Wall -- Art Silo -- Geffrye Museum -- the Hubs, formerly the National Centre for Popular Music -- Ecstacity -- Battersea Gods Home -- Design Museum -- Mixtacity -- Tate Modern -- Thames Gateway -- Caffè Bongo -- Michelangelo's David -- Venus of Willendorf -- Paul McCarthy -- Internet -- Tim Berners‐Lee -- Palace of Westminster; 729
• DOI: 10.1002/ad.2278
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-8504

Abstract

Abstract : London‐based architect and designerNigel Coates has had a long and distinguished international career. Here he explores his own work through the lenses of Surrealism, citing some of the influences that shaped his practice and introducing us to his recent project that reimagines London's historic Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens for the 21st century.