April 25, 2011 at 12:28pm 55 notes
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Source: Los Angeles Times
 The latest book in Christopher Hawthorne’s Reading L.A. series: This month Reading L.A. arrives at a major milestone: “Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies,” written by the British architectural historian and critic Reyner Banham and published in 1971. As it turns 40 this year, the book remains — with Carey McWilliams’ 1946 “Southern California: As Island on the Land” and Mike Davis’ 1990 “City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles” — among the few volumes to grasp the city in all its urban and architectural complexity. Davis called it “the textbook on Los Angeles.” Photo: Reyner Banham in 1984, in front of a mural at John Muir School in Santa Monica. Credit: Los Angeles Times

 The latest book in Christopher Hawthorne’s Reading L.A. series:

This month Reading L.A. arrives at a major milestone: “Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies,” written by the British architectural historian and critic Reyner Banham and published in 1971. As it turns 40 this year, the book remains — with Carey McWilliams’ 1946 “Southern California: As Island on the Land” and Mike Davis’ 1990 “City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles” — among the few volumes to grasp the city in all its urban and architectural complexity. Davis called it “the textbook on Los Angeles.”

Photo: Reyner Banham in 1984, in front of a mural at John Muir School in Santa Monica. Credit: Los Angeles Times

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