Full name: Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies

Author: Reyner Banham Year: 1971 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Architecture, Non Fiction, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780520260153 0520260155

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. Similar books: Experiencing Architecture by Steen Eiler Rasmussen Thinking Architecture by Peter Zumthor The Most Beautiful House in the World by Witold Rybczynski The Oregon Experiment by Christopher Alexander S,M,L,XL by Rem Koolhaas The Edifice Complex by Deyan Sudjic The Seven Lamps of Architecture by John Ruskin Atmospheres by Peter Zumthor Modern Architecture Since 1900 by William J. R. Curtis Shelter by Lloyd Kahn Delirious New York by Rem Koolhaas From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe Modern Architecture by Kenneth Frampton The Classical Language of Architecture by John Summerson How Buildings Learn by Stewart Brand Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter by Lloyd Kahn Me++ by William J. Mitchell Underground by David Macaulay Basic Building Data by Don Graf