Los Angeles : the architecture of four ecologies / Reyner Banham ; introduction by Anthony Vidler.
By: Banham, Reyner.
Berkeley : University of California Press, 2009 printing, c2000Description: xxxv, 238 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.ISBN: 9780520260153 (alk. paper).Subject(s): Architecture -- California -- Los Angeles | Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Buildings, structures, etcGenre/Form: Print books.DDC classification: 720/.47/0979494| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On Shelf | NA735.L55 B3 2001 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000003311 |
Previously published: London : Anthony Vidler, 2001.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-232) and index.
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 -- Towards a Drive-in Bibliography.
"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. Within his construct of four ecologies, he examined how 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 his new introduction, Anthony Vidler assesses the book's influence on how we see Los Angeles and how architectural historians look at cities."--BOOK JACKET.