Los Angeles

The Architecture of Four Ecologies
2. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-520-26015-3
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 206 mm, Gewicht: 351 g

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. In a spectacular new foreword, architect and scholar Joe Day explores how the structure of Los Angeles, the concept of "ecology," and the relevance of Banham's ideas have changed over the past thirty-five years.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Banham, Reyner

Weitere Mitwirkende

Day, Joe

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Bauökologie, Baubiologie, Bauphysik, Bauchemie
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Ökologische Aspekte in der Architektur
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Bauökologie, Baubiologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte Regionalgeschichte der USA: Einzelne Staaten, Städte
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Foreword to the 2009 Edition
Foreword to the 2000 Edition

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

Acknowledgments
Towards a Drive-in Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Reyner Banham (1922-1988) was Sheldon H. Solow Professor of the History of Architecture at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Joe Day leads deegan day design llc and serves on the design faculty at the Southern California Institute of Architecture.