Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four EcologiesUniversity of California Press, 5 mar 2009 - 238 pagine 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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List of Illustrations | ix |
Foreword to the 2009 Edition | xv |
Foreword to the 2000 Edition | xxxiii |
Views of Los Angeles | l |
Surfurbia | 19 |
Exotic Pioneers | 39 |
The Transportation Palimpsest | 57 |
Foothills | 77 |
The Plains of Id | 143 |
The Exiles | 161 |
A Note on Downtown | 183 |
Autopia | 195 |
The Style that Nearly | 205 |
An Ecology for Architecture | 217 |
Acknowledgments | 227 |
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