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Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles

Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jul 1, 1972

Runtime

0h 52m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles

Director

Julian Cooper

Description

In this 1972 BBC Films production, architectural historian Reyner Banham takes the viewer on a tour of what he describes as the “four ecologies” of the city of Los Angeles: Surfurbia, Foothills, The Plains of Id, and Autopia (beach, basin, foothills, freeways). Noted for his seminal book of essays, Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies, published the year before, Banham had a love affair with the City of Angels and its bold typologies. (Open Source Cities)