Los Angeles : the architecture of four ecologies
"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."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2001 printing, ©2000
University of California Press, Berkeley, 2001 printing, ©2000
Writings
xxxv, 236 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
9780520219243, 0520219244
44927136
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
Previously published: London : Allen Lane, 1971