Banham, Rayner

Los Angeles, The Architecture of Four Ecologies [1971 1ST EDITION 1ST PRINTING - FINE]

Harper & Row, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Harper and Row, 1971, Hardcover in pictorial dust jacket with  'A Bigger Splash' cover art  by David Hockney. First Edition, First Prionting. 7 x 5 inches.  256 pages with numerous photographic images and maps in black and white throughout accompanied by  Banham's  examination of the built environment of Los Angeles in a way no architectural historian before him had done, looking with fresh eyes at its manifestations of popular taste and industrial ingenuity, as well as its more traditional modes of residential and commercial building. His construct of 'four ecologies' examined the ways Angelenos relate to the beach, the freeways, the flatlands, and the foothills.  BOOK CONDITION: Fine; a solid, tight, clean cipy showing light rubbing to board edges in a Fine lightly rubbed dist jacket housed in a protective, clean plastic cover. . Fine / Fine. Item #11296
ISBN: 9780713902099

Price: $350.00