Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (Penguin Art and Architecture) - Softcover

Banham, Reyner

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140136606 ISBN 13: 9780140136609

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1973

Synopsis

DIVERSE AS FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, CHARLES EAMES, RICHARD NEUTRA AND SIMON RODIA (WHO DESIGNED THE UNIQUE WATTS TOWERS) IN THEIR PROPER CONTEXTS OF MOUNTAINS, PLAINS, BEACHES AND FREEWAYS.

About this title

About the Author:

Reyner Banham (1922-1988) was Sheldon H. Solow Professor of the History of Architecture at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and Professor of Art History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Among his many books are A Critic Writes (California, 1996) and Theory and Design in the First Machine Age (1961). Anthony Vidler is Professor and Chair of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles. His most recent book is Warped Space: Art, Architecture, and Anxiety in Modern Culture (2000).

Review:

"Los Angeles deserves to be read today . . . as a model on how to read any city." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0140136606
• ISBN 13: 9780140136609
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256