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architect
architectural
architectural historian
architectural history
architecture
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Author_Reyner Banham
beach
buildings
built environment
california
california beach
california history
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commercial building
ecology
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famous buildings
flatlands
foothills
four ecologies
freeway
history
industrial ingenuity
los angeles
monuments
popular taste
posturban
residential building
road system
roadways
structure of los angeles
the beach
the freeways
urban planners
urban studies
Product details
- ISBN 9780520260153
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 05 Mar 2009
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Reyner Banham examined the built environment of Los Angeles in a way no architectural historian before him had done, looking with fresh eyes at its manifestations of popular taste and industrial ingenuity, as well as its more traditional modes of residential and commercial building. His construct of 'four ecologies' examined the ways Angelenos relate to the beach, the freeways, the flatlands, and the foothills. Banham delighted in this mobile city and identified it as an exemplar of the posturban future. In a spectacular new foreword, architect and scholar Joe Day explores how the structure of Los Angeles, the concept of 'ecology', and the relevance of Banham's ideas have changed over the past thirty-five years.
Reyner Banham (1922-1988) was Sheldon H. Solow Professor of the History of Architecture at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Joe Day leads deegan day design llc and serves on the design faculty at the Southern California Institute of Architecture.
