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Reyner Banham
Los Angeles
The Architecture of Four Ecologies
$22.95, £13.50 paperback
978-0-520-26015-3
NYP--Due 2/09
290 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches, 111 b/w photographs, 4 line illustrations, 8 maps
February 2009, Available worldwide
Categories: Architecture; Architectural History; California & the West; Urban Studies
February 2009, Available worldwide
Categories: Architecture; Architectural History; California & the West; Urban Studies
"The true language of Los Angeles is the language of movement, says Banham. . . . A generous and exhilarating joyride."—The New York Times
"Deserves to be read today not for its prescience or as a quaint historical artifact, but as a model on how to read any city."—Los Angeles Times Book Review
"A light-hearted and affectionate tribute."—New York Review of Books
"Deserves to be read today not for its prescience or as a quaint historical artifact, but as a model on how to read any city."—Los Angeles Times Book Review
"A light-hearted and affectionate tribute."—New York Review of Books
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.