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The Architecture of Four Ecologies

Reyner Banham, Joe Day

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California Uni Pr Trade
05 March 2009

Art & Architecture; History of architecture

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.

By: Reyner Banham
Foreword by: Joe Day
Imprint: California Uni Pr Trade
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 363g
ISBN: 9780520260153
ISBN 10: 0520260155
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 05 March 2009
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Illustrations Foreword to the 2009 Edition Foreword to the 2000 Edition Views of Los Angeles 1. In the Rear-view Mirror 2. Ecology I: Surfurbia 3· Architecture I: Exotic Pioneers 4· The Transportation Palimpsest 5. Ecology II: Foothills 6. Architecture II: Fantastic 7· The Art of the Enclave 8. Ecology III: The Plains of Id 9· Architecture III: The Exiles 10. A Note on Downtown . .. 11. Ecology IV: Autopia 12. Architecture IV: The Style that Nearly. . . 13. An Ecology for Architecture Acknowledgments Towards a Drive-in Bibliography Index

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

Banham's book has remained au courant. * Palisadian Post * Banham wrote like a blissed-out lover, surrendering to his feelings of derangement and wonder while keeping his eyes wide-open. * Los Angeles Times * Still as penetrating now as when Banham completed his observations on the city in 1971. * La Observed * 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 * 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 his eyes wide-open. Los Angeles Times Banham's book has remained au courant. Palisadian Post