Thinking of Todd Gannon’s Reyner Banham and the Paradoxes of High Tech as simply an excellent biography of one of the 20 th century’s most celebrated writers on architecture would be quite off base.

A newly released book titled Reyner Banham: A Set of Actual Tracks was edited by Ludovico Centis, former Peter Reyner Banham Fellow at the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning ...

Tom Vanderbilt is the author of "Survival City: Adventures Among the Ruins of Atomic America," to be published in January When British architectural historian Reyner Banham’s “Los Angeles: The ...

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Nearly 50 years ago, British architectural scholar Reyner Banham embraced Los Angeles for its non-convention, identifying four separate identities – beach, foothill, flatland and freeway – that ...

Reyner Banham, a true design visionary if there ever was one, studying Los Angeles in 1972. The central conceit of this hour-long BBC documentary is a fake interactive geolocative app – and it's built ...

Reyner Banham, in his 1971 Los Angeles: The Architecture of the Four Ecologies, chose to view L.A. as an interwoven network of ecological systems: freeways, suburbs, mountains, and beaches. This urban ...

“Los Angeles does not get the attention it deserves,” wrote renowned architectural critic Reyner Banham in his 1971 book Los Angeles: The Four Ecologies. “It gets attention, but it’s like the ...

In this 1972 BBC Films production, architectural historian Reyner Banham takes the viewer on a tour of what he describes as the “four ecologies” of the city of Los Angeles: Surfurbia, Foothills, The ...