Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies

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University of California Press, 2001 - 236 páginas
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.
 

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In the Rearview Mirror
3
Ecology I Surfurbia
21
Architecture I Exotic Pioneers
41
The Transportation Palimpsest
59
Ecology II Foothills
79
Architecture II Fantastic
95
The Art of the Enclave
121
Ecology III The Plains of Id
145
Architecture III The Exiles
163
A Note on Downtown
185
Ecology IV Autopia
197
Architecture IV The Style that Nearly
207
An Ecology for Architecture
219
Towards a Drivein Bibliography
229
Index
235
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Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies
Reyner Banham
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Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies
Reyner Banham
Vista previa limitada - 2009

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Acerca del autor (2001)

Reyner Banham (1922-1988) was Sheldon H. Solow Professor of the History of Architecture at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and Professor of Art History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Among his many books are A Critic Writes (California, 1996) and Theory and Design in the First Machine Age (1961). Anthony Vidler is Professor and Chair of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles. His most recent book is Warped Space: Art, Architecture, and Anxiety in Modern Culture (2000).

Información bibliográfica

TítuloLos Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies
Architecture/Urban studies
AutorReyner Banham
Ediciónilustrada, reimpresa
EditorUniversity of California Press, 2001
ISBN0520219244, 9780520219243
Largo236 páginas
  
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