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Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for Los AngelesExamines the built environment of Los Angeles, looking at its manifestations of popular taste and industrial ingenuity, as well as its traditional modes of residential and commercial building. This title also examines 'four ecologies' in the ways Angelenos relate to the beach, the freeways, the flatlands, and the foothills.
Full description- Publisher: University of California Press
- Published: 01 February 2009
- Format: Paperback 296 pages
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- Categories: Art History | Architecture | History Of Architecture | History Of The Americas | Guidebooks
- ISBN 13: 9780520260153 ISBN 10: 0520260155
- Sales rank: 343,782
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Full description for Los Angeles
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.
