| Description |
56 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Reflections on taste wars -- 'Good taste', 'bad taste' and 'taste-cultures' -- A review of the critique -- Royal taste and other taste-cultures -- Four paradoxes of the taste wars -- Authority in a time of dissensus -- Quality and meritocracies of taste -- New wave monarchy and its travail by press -- Long-wave or short-wave? -- Appendixes. Extracts from Prince Charles' Speeches on architecture -- RIBA Gala speech -- Institute of Directors speech -- The Times/RIBA Community Enterprise Scheme Awards 1985 and 1987 -- Building Communities Conference -- Mansion House speech -- 'Remaking Cities' -- God Save the King / Leon Krier -- An open letter to HRH The Prince of Wales / Terry Farrell -- The art of building / Michael Manser -- Should the Prince send modernism to the Tower? / Paul Goldberger -- A force for the good but the wrong target / Norman Foster -- Sadly superficial / AJ editorial -- The Prince and the architects / Simon Jenkins |
| Summary |
“With the address known as the 'Monstrous carbuncle speech' given to the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1984, Prince Charles entered the current architectural debate. Since then he has consistently attacked insensitive modern developments and made known his support for Community Architecture, conservation, and the young Classical Revivalists. He has voiced a fundamental issue in the debate: that architects and planners should 'provide what people want and not what they think people should want'. The Prince's interventions have extended to other environmental and social issues.” “It cannot be doubted that the Prince's interventions have shaken the architectural establishment and thrust into the debate the need to reconsider the effects of modern planning on the ordinary person.”--Back cover |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: page 42 |
| Subject |
Charles, Prince of Wales, 1948-
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Architecture -- Great Britain -- Themes, motives.
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Architecture -- Great Britain -- 20th century.
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Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Great Britain -- Themes, motives.
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Architecture.
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| LC no. |
88168449 |
| ISBN |
0847810100 |
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