Reyner Banham

Details

Nationality

British

Classifications

Holder

Individual

Source of authority

ObservationReason

Subject

Human centred

Mode of transmission

Text drawing

Knowledge type

Propositional

Epistemic cluster

Western philosophical

Notes

[DRAFT] English critic whose Theory and Design in the First Machine Age (1960) revised the history of modernism, who named 'New Brutalism', and whose Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (1971) and The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment reframed building around technology and environment.

Connections

• authored Theory and Design in the First Machine Age
• influenced Charles Jencks
• authored The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment
• proposed Well-Tempered Environment
• associated with Climatic / Environmental Modernism
• preceded Daniel A. Barber
• proposed Megastructure
• authored Megastructure: Urban Futures of the Recent Past

Referenced by

• Sigfried Giedion influenced
• Daniel A. Barber extends
• Kiel Moe extends
• Geoffrey Scott influenced
• Nikolaus Pevsner influenced

Sources

1. Reyner Banham. Theory and Design in the First Machine Age. Architectural Press, 1960.
2. Nigel Whiteley. Reyner Banham: Historian of the Immediate Future. MIT Press, 2002.
3. University of Chicago Press. n.d.. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo5956755.html.