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A Critic Writes - Selected Essays by Reyner Banham (Paperback, First Edition,)
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A Critic Writes - Selected Essays by Reyner Banham (Paperback, First Edition,)
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Few twentieth-century writers on architecture and design have
enjoyed the renown of Reyner Banham. Born and trained in England
and a U.S. resident starting in 1976, Banham wrote incisively about
American and European buildings and culture. Now readers can enjoy
a chronological cross-section of essays, polemics, and reviews
drawn from more than three decades of Banham's writings. The
volume, which includes discussions of Italian Futurism, Adolf Loos,
Paul Scheerbart, and the Bauhaus as well as explorations of
contemporary architecture by Frank Gehry, James Stirling, and
Norman Foster, conveys the full range of Banham's belief in
industrial and technological development as the motor of
architectural evolution. Banham's interests and passions ranged
from architecture and the culture of pop art to urban and
industrial design. In brilliant analyses of automobile styling,
mobile homes, science fiction films, and the American predilection
for gadgets, he anticipated many of the preoccupations of
contemporary cultural studies. Los Angeles, the city that Banham
commemorated in a book and a film, receives extensive attention in
essays on the Santa Monica Pier, the Getty Museum, Forest Lawn
cemetery, and the ubiquitous freeway system. Eminently readable,
provocative, and entertaining, this book is certain to consolidate
Banham's reputation among architects and students of contemporary
culture. For those acquainted with his writing, it offers welcome
surprises as well as familiar delights. For those encountering
Banham for the first time, it comprises the perfect introduction.
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