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Peter Reyner Banham Hon. FRIBA (2 March 1922 – 19 March 1988) was an English architectural critic and writer best known for his theoretical treatise Theory and Design in the First Machine Age (1960) and for his 1971 book Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies.
Jun 4, 2019 · Reyner Banham (1922 -1988) 4 June 2019By Paul DaviesReputations. Share. Comment. Add to Bookmarks. The gas-fitter’s son from Norwich with sartorial flair and a way with words was on a mission to reanimate what he saw as a somewhat freeze-dried architectural Modernism with the fabled white heat of technology.
Aug 24, 2016 · A 'radical alternative': how one man changed the perception of Los Angeles. In the 1960s, British architectural critic Reyner Banham declared his love for the city that his fellow intellectuals...
Todd Gannon’s Reyner Banham and the Paradoxes of High Tech is a remarkable achievement, breaking new ground despite the substantial volume of publications following the death of Reyner Banham in 1988. It not only recounts the intellectual biography of Banham, commonly portrayed as the inventor of Brutalism or as the promotor of Pop ...
Mar 22, 1988 · Reyner Banham, a British architectural historian whose work traced the rise and fall of modernism and society's attitudes toward it, died of cancer Saturday in London. He was 66 years old.
Apr 29, 2011 · Read this article. In the 1969 book The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment, architectural critic and historian Reyner Banham drew from a decade of his own writings about “environments fit for human activities”, heralding the possibilities of a technologically-driven, man-made climate that would eliminate the need for “massive ...
Jun 16, 2020 · Megastructure: Urban Futures of the Recent Past. Reyner Banham. The Monacelli Press, LLC, Jun 16, 2020 - Architecture - 232 pages. A long-sought reprint of this classic of architectural history and criticism, surveying a movement that would inspire architects, fantasists, and filmmakers alike.
