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The Architecture of Four Ecologies

By Reyner Banham

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Reyner Banham offers a groundbreaking exploration of Los Angeles' unique built environment, analysing its popular culture, industrial design, and traditional architectural forms. He introduces the concept of "four ecologies" that describe how residents engage with the beach, freeways, flatlands, and foothills, portraying the city as a dynamic model of posturban development. A new foreword by Joe Day reflects on the evolution of Banham's ideas over thirty-five years.
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Ideal for readers interested in architectural history, urban studies, and cultural analysis, as well as those curious about the distinctive fabric of Los Angeles.

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.

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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.

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Los Angeles Magazine praises Banham for uniting the city's fragmented nature into a coherent whole. La Observed notes the work remains as insightful today as in 1971. The Los Angeles Times highlights Banham's passionate yet perceptive writing style, while the Palisadian Post affirms the book's ongoing relevance.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780520260153

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 March 2009

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Edition: 2nd edition

Illustration: 111 b-w photographs, 4 line illustrations, 8 maps

Contributors:

Foreword by Joe Day

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 363g

Pages: 296

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About the Author

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.

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