2007-03-30
Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles
A very interesting 52 minutes 1972 BBC documentary (directed by Julian Cooper) staring Reyner Banham (1922-1988), architecture theorist, member of the Independent Group, who also had contacts with Archigram.
We learn in Encyclopedia Britannica…
[…] The automobile so dominates life in this uniquely mobile community [Los Angeles] that Reyner Banham, an English observer who took his cue from scholars who study Italian in order to read Dante, is said to have learned to drive a car so he could “read Los Angeles in the original.”
Reyner Banham is according to Nigel Whiteley the Historian of the Immediate Future!
To read as well: The kinetic icon: Reyner Banham on Los Angeles as mobile metropolis.
2007-04-16 7:53 pm
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.