Banham, Reyner
Variant namesBiographical/Historical Note
Reyner Banham (1922-1988) was a British-born architectural historian, critic, and educator. He taught at the University of London, SUNY Buffalo, New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, and the University of California at Santa Cruz. His writings and lectures influenced a generation of architects and historians of modern architecture. Banham's writings include reviews, journalistic and scholarly essays, and monographs. Of his many monographs, perhaps the best known are: Theory and design in the first machine age (1960), Los Angeles: the architecture of four ecologies (1971), Architecture of the well-tempered environment (1984), and Concrete Atlantis (1986). After his death, Mary Banham edited A critic writes, a compilation of Banham's essays (1996).
From the guide to the Reyner Banham papers, 1930-1990, 1970-1988, (Getty Research Institute)
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| creatorOf | Reyner Banham papers, 1930-1990 (bulk 1970-1988) | Getty Research Institute | |
| referencedIn | Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969. Papers, 1925-1969 (bulk: 1937-1969) | Houghton Library | |
| referencedIn | R. Buckminster Fuller Papers | Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives |
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| associatedWith | Brooklyn Museum | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983 | person |
| correspondedWith | Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969 | person |
| associatedWith | Herron, Ron | person |
| associatedWith | International Design Conference in Aspen | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Piano, Renzo | person |
| associatedWith | Price, Cedric | person |
| associatedWith | Ransome, Ernest L. (Ernest Leslie), 1844-1917 | person |
| associatedWith | Rogers, Richard George | person |
| associatedWith | Tennessee Valley Authority | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Waterhouse, Alan | person |
| associatedWith | Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 | person |
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| Los Angeles (Calif.)—Buildings, structures, etc. |
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