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Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies
Reyner Banham
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Description for Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies
Paperback. Examines the built environment of Los Angeles, looking at its manifestations of popular taste and industrial ingenuity, as well as its traditional modes of residential and commercial building. This title also examines 'four ecologies' in the ways Angelenos relate to the beach, the freeways, the flatlands, and the foothills. Num Pages: 296 pages, 111 b/w photographs, 4 line illustrations, 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 354. The Architecture of Four Ecologies. 296 pages, Illustrations. Examines the built environment of Los Angeles, looking at its manifestations of popular taste and industrial ingenuity, as well as its traditional modes of residential and commercial building. This title also examines 'four ecologies' in the ways Angelenos relate to the beach, the freeways, the flatlands, and the foothills. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; AMX. Dimension: 209 x 141 x 19. Weight: 352.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520260153
SKU
V9780520260153
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About Reyner Banham
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.
Reviews for Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies
"In one volume [Banham] does the near-impossible: He makes us see this fragmented city [of Los Angeles] as a breathing whole."
Ariel Swartley Los Angeles Magazine "Still as penetrating now as when Banham completed his observations on the city in 1971." La Observed "Banham wrote like a blissed-out lover, surrendering to his feelings of derangement and wonder while keeping ... Read more
Ariel Swartley Los Angeles Magazine "Still as penetrating now as when Banham completed his observations on the city in 1971." La Observed "Banham wrote like a blissed-out lover, surrendering to his feelings of derangement and wonder while keeping ... Read more