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Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies
Reyner Banham
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| #181671 in Books | University of California Press | 2009-03-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.25 x.80 x5.50l,.77 | File type: PDF | 296 pages | University of California Press||21 of 22 people found the following review helpful.| LA Re-visited|By James B. Garrison|Even though Banham's book was written in the early '70's, it remains a cogent view of a metropolis that has changed yet remained the same. It is a place, yes a real place, that is defined by geography and the various cultures of its inhabitants to a unique degree. Architecture is but a backdrop to Banham's larger point about the inter-rela||
“In one volume [Banham] does the near-impossible: He makes us see this fragmented city [of Los Angeles] as a breathing whole.”
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 ...
You easily download any file type for your device.Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies | Reyner Banham. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
