Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles

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1972 / 52min.

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Genres

Documentary

Synopsis

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)

Directors

Julian Cooper

Actors

Edward Ruscha

Reyner Banham

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