Reyner Banham

Peter Reyner Banham (born March 2, 1922 , Norwich ( Norfolk ), England , † March 19, 1988 ) was an English architecture critic . His best-known publications include Theory and Design in the First Machine Age (1960) and Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (1971).

Life

Banham first studied with Anthony Blunt at the Courtauld Institute of Art , then with Sigfried Giedion and Nikolaus Pevsner .

As a professor, Banham taught at the University of London , the State University of New York (SUNY) Buffalo and, in the 1980s, at the University of California, Santa Cruz .

Works (selection)

• Theory and Design in the First Machine Age . The Architectural Press, London 1960.
  • The architecture revolution. Theory and design in the first machine age (=  Rowohlt's German encyclopedia ). Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 1964.
• Guide to Modern Architecture . The Architectural Press, London 1962, ISBN 978-0-85139-261-5 .
• The New Brutalism . The Architectural Press, London 1966.
  • Brutalism in architecture. Ethics or aesthetics? Stuttgart 1966.
• Los Angeles. The Architecture of the Four Ecologies . Harper and Row, 1971, ISBN 978-0-7139-0209-9 .

literature

• Nigel Whiteley: Reyner Banham: Historian of the Immediate Future . MIT Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0-262-73165-2 .
• Paul Goldberger: Reyner Banham, Architectural Critic, Dies at 66. In: The New York Times . March 22, 1988.

Web links

• Literature by and about Reyner Banham in the catalog of the German National Library