Land+Living: Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles

Urban — April 5, 2007 Posted by James

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)

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Kim Cooper — April 16, 2007
Banham tour launching

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.