Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles Category: Urban Posted by: James on 4/5/2007 10:05:00 AM | Digg | Stumble It! | del.icio.us 1972 documentary film How else would Reyner Banham tour Los Angeles but by car? Take a circa 1972 ride through Los Angeles with the architectural critic and author of Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies as he visits the Plains, the Foothills, Surfurbia, and (of course) Autopia. It is amazing to see how much Los Angeles changed in the last 35 years, and yet how relevant Banham's observations still are. Awesome. We'll get back to modern day Los Angeles with more coverage from CA Boom 4 shortly... stay tuned. Link: Google Video (51 min 58 sec) Comments Add Comments Banham tour launching Posted by Kim Cooper on 4/16/2007 10:52:00 AM Three of the tour hosts at Esotouric Bus Adventures in LA trained under Reyner Banham as undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz, and he utterly changed the way we see our native Southern California. In tribute, we will be launching a new tour in fall 2007 called "Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles," to join such city tours as Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles, The Real Black Dahlia, John Fante's Bunker Hill, Weird West Adams, Pasadena Confidential and Riot on Sunset Strip. Please visit http://www.esotouric.com/reyner for more info, and to sign up for the email announcement list for updates. Back to Top Add your comments Please keep your comments relevent to this blog entry. Please note: Land+Living is journal of modern design. We do not sell the products featured on this website nor do we provide design-related services. If you are interested in more information about a product or service mentioned on this website, please contact the manufacturer via the links provided. Thank you! Your Name: Comment Title:   Add your comments: Branches DesignBOT Search: Clippings Categories Accessories (53) Announcements (24) Appliances (10) Architecture (237) Art (75) Bath (18) Bed (6) Books (51) Commentary (23) Competitions (16) Culinary (3) Designers (38) Dining (17) Events (107) Floor - Wall (25) Furniture (181) Graphics (32) Green (81) Interiors (22) Kids (8) Kitchen (12) Landscape (142) Lighting (41) Materials (41) Misc (70) Music (21) News (78) Office (12) Outdoor (46) Personal (11) Pets (5) Retail (10) Urban (45) + Archives September 2008 July 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February 2008 January 2008 December 2007 October 2007 September 2007 August 2007 July 2007 June 2007 May 2007 April 2007 March 2007 February 2007 January 2007 December 2006 November 2006 October 2006 September 2006 August 2006 July 2006 June 2006 May 2006 April 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006 December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 July 2005 June 2005 May 2005 April 2005 March 2005 February 2005 January 2005 December 2004 November 2004 October 2004 September 2004 August 2004 July 2004 June 2004 May 2004 Most Commented: Has Dwell stopped being a "Nice Modernist?" (121) Porch House (111) Sub-Zero PRO 48 (59) Ashes and Snow, Smoke and Mirrors... (58) Glass Garage Doors (49) The Oculas (48) Skate like a girl! (46) Detroit. Demolition. Disneyland. (44) Metallica (44) The Very Small Home (39) Recent Comments: Jubilee Primary School Sustainable Car Parks The Oculas Metallica Dedon Metallica Andy Goldsworthy Andy Goldsworthy Andy Goldsworthy Glass Garage Doors About Advertise Contact RSS 2.0 Links: Apartment Therapy Archinect BLDGBLOG Cool Hunting DesignBot design*sponge Funfurde Future Feeder Inhabitat Loud Paper MocoLoco My Urban Garden Deco Guide Pruned Reluct The Dirt (ASLA) Treehugger