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Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies
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Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies
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by Reyner Banham
Sales Rank : 305781
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Paperback: 275 pages
Publisher: University of California Press; 1 edition April 2, 2001
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0520219244
ISBN-13: 978-0520219243
Product Dimensions:
8.4 x 5.6 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
Product Review
"Los Angeles deserves to be read today . . . as a model on how to read any city." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review
Product Description
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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