Thinking of Todd Gannon’s Reyner Banham and the Paradoxes of High Tech as simply an excellent biography of one of the 20 th century’s most celebrated writers on architecture would be quite off base.

A newly released book titled Reyner Banham: A Set of Actual Tracks was edited by Ludovico Centis, former Peter Reyner Banham Fellow at the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning ...

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This is Kevin Roderick with LA Observed for KCRW. I took a walk around the campus at UCLA yesterday to look at preparations for the Festival of Books this weekend. And it was a little sobering. Don't ...

Reyner Banham, a true design visionary if there ever was one, studying Los Angeles in 1972. The central conceit of this hour-long BBC documentary is a fake interactive geolocative app – and it's built ...

In the 1960s, British architectural critic Reyner Banham declared his love for the city that his fellow intellectuals hated. What Banham wrote about Los Angeles redefined how the world perceived it – ...

The brilliant scholar and critic Reyner Banham was best known for his treatises on architecture, where he would compare ice cream vans with mediaeval cathedrals and explain the importance of bike ...

An enterprising reader lets us know about this 1972 BBC documentary with architecture critic Reyner Banham learning to drive on the right side of the road exploring Los Angeles. Writes our reader: ...

In the late 1960s, a tall and ungainly Englishman named Peter Reyner Banham brought his shaggy beard and wonky teeth to Los Angeles and declared that he loved the city with a passion. It helped that, ...