NATØ: Narrative Architecture in Postmodern London

<p>Chronicling the last radical architectural group of the twentieth century – NATØ (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 NATØ’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. NATØ has most often been documented in reference to Nigel Coates (the instigator of NATØ) which has led to a one-sided one-dimensional record of NATØ’s place in architectural history. This book sets out a more detailed contextual history of NATØ told through photographs drawings and ephemera restoring a truer polyvocal narrative of the group’s ethos and development.</p>