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Reyner Banham

Bio: Reyner Banham is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Architecture & Futures contract. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 22 publications receiving 1332 citations.

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01 Jan 1960
TL;DR: The Theory and Design in the First Machine Age as mentioned in this paper has become required reading in numerous courses on the history of modern architecture and is widely regarded as one of the definitive books on the modern movement.
Abstract: First published in 1960, Theory and Design in the First Machine Age has become required reading in numerous courses on the history of modern architecture and is widely regarded as one of the definitive books on the modern movement. It has influenced a generation of students and critics interested in the formation of attitudes, themes, and forms which were characteristic of artists and architects working primarily in Europe between 1900 and 1930 under the compulsion of new technological developments in the first machine age.

299 citations

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01 Jan 1969
TL;DR: In this paper, Banham has added considerable new material on the use of energy, particularly solar energy, in human environments, including discussions of Indian pueblos and solar architecture, the Centre Pompidou and other high-tech buildings, and the environmental wisdom of many current architectural vernaculars.
Abstract: Reyner Banham was a pioneer in arguing that technology, human needs, and environmental concerns must be considered an integral part of architecture. No historian before him had so systematically explored the impact of environmental engineering on the design of buildings and on the minds of architects. In this revision of his classic work, Banham has added considerable new material on the use of energy, particularly solar energy, in human environments. Included in the new material are discussions of Indian pueblos and solar architecture, the Centre Pompidou and other high-tech buildings, and the environmental wisdom of many current architectural vernaculars.

291 citations

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01 Jan 1971
TL;DR: Diverse as FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, CHARLES Eames, RICHARD NEUTRA and SIMON RODIA (who DESIGNED the UNIQUE WATTS TOWERS) in their PROPER CONTEXTS OF MOUNTAINS, PLAINS, BEACHES and FREEWAYS as discussed by the authors
Abstract: DIVERSE AS FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, CHARLES EAMES, RICHARD NEUTRA AND SIMON RODIA (WHO DESIGNED THE UNIQUE WATTS TOWERS) IN THEIR PROPER CONTEXTS OF MOUNTAINS, PLAINS, BEACHES AND FREEWAYS.

273 citations

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01 Jan 1976

109 citations

Book
01 Jan 1966

106 citations


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TL;DR: A conceptual account of this phenomenon is provided on the basis of an exploration of the character of place-specific forms of culture generation and the agglomerative tendencies of many kinds of cultural products industries.
Abstract: An increasingly important fraction of contemporary economic activity is devoted to the production of cultural outputs, i.e. goods and services with high levels of aesthetic or semiotic content. This kind of economic activity is especially, and increasingly, associated with a number of large cities scattered over the globe. A conceptual account of this phenomenon is provided on the basis of an exploration of the character of place-specific forms of culture generation and the agglomerative tendencies of many kinds of cultural products industries. The empirical cases of Los Angeles and Paris are briefly discussed. The dynamics of production, distribution and location of major cultural products industries are also examined. The paper ends with a brief allusion to the modalities of spatial differentiation of culture in contemporary capitalism and to a prospective cultural politics.

1,322 citations

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TL;DR: A model of the design process of some architects who had been interviewed earlier is suggested, consisting of generator-conjecture-analysis, with a broad initial objective or small set of objectives, self-imposed by the architect, a value judgement rather than the product of rationality.

581 citations

01 Jan 1979
TL;DR: A series of digital presentations that relates the conceptual to the perceptual aspects of architecture by overlaying photographs and drawings with diagrams to help the viewer identify elements and abstract principles from what is seen in a book or on a monitor.
Abstract: What's on the CD This CD is an experimental supplement to the printed material in the Third Edition of Architecture: Form, Space and Order. Organized into modules corresponding to the book chapters, the series of digital presentations relates the conceptual to the perceptual aspects of architecture by overlaying photographs and drawings with diagrams. The selected examples are, of course, limited in number and scope, but it is hoped that the vignettes will help the viewer identify elements and abstract principles from what is seen in a book or on a monitor, and be able to see similarities in the environments experienced in real life or imagined while designing.

466 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a continuation of and a complement to those published in the Urban History Yearbook 1974-91 and Urban History 1992-2002, and an index of towns on pp. 504-507.
Abstract: This bibliography is a continuation of and a complement to those published in the Urban History Yearbook 1974–91 and Urban History 1992–2002. The arrangement and format closely follows that of previous years. There is an index of towns on pp. 504–507. The list of abbreviations identifies only those periodicals from which articles cited this year have been taken.

294 citations

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TL;DR: The authors argue that the economic foundations of these trends reside, in part, in the structural characteristics of image-producing industries, marked as they frequently are by modularized, network structures of production and a strong proclivity to geographic agglomeration.
Abstract: A striking characteristic of contemporary capitalism is the increasing importance (in terms of growth, employment, revenue, etc.) of sectors whose outputs are imbued with significant cultural or symbolic content. Sectors of these sorts are predominantly, though not exclusively, located in large cities. I describe how these cities function as creative fields generating streams of both cultural and technological innovations. Post-Fordist cities are shown to be especially fertile terrains of commodified cultural production. A number of these cities have become major centres of image-producing industries such as film, music recording, or fashion clothing, and this phenomenon is also often associated with profound transformations of their physical landscapes. I argue that the economic foundations of these trends reside, in part, in the structural characteristics of image-producing industries, marked as they frequently are by modularized, network structures of production and a strong proclivity to geographic agglomeration. At the same time, the main centres of the contemporary cultural economy are caught up in insistent processes of globalization. I suggest that after an initial phase of product standardization and concentrated development in only a few major centres, the cultural economy of capitalism now appears to be entering a new phase marked by increasingly high levels of product differentiation and polycentric production sites. I also submit that the contemporary cultural economy of capitalism constitutes a historical shift beyond consumer society as such.

221 citations