Ian Nairn: Words in Place
by Gillian Darley and David McKie
Five Leaves Publications, November 2013

Hardcover | 6 x 9 inches | 160 pages | 21 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9781907869877 | £10.99 | "Ian Nairn taught a generation to look, and another one to write." (click here for publisher's description and author bio)

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Reyner Banham Revisited
by Richard J. Williams
Reaktion Books, July 2021

Hardcover | 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches | 304 pages | 55 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9781789144178 | $35.00 | "Banham?s obsession with technology, and his talent for thinking the unthinkable, mean his work still resonates now, more than thirty years after his death." (click here for publisher's description and author bio)
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REVIEW:
Of the 100 books surveyed in my latest book, Buildings in Print, there are very few architects/authors with multiple titles. Both Le Corbusier and Rem Koolhaas have four titles ? not surprising, since both architects use(d) books as extensions of their building practices ? and then comes Reyner Banham with three books: Theory and Design in the First Machine Age, The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment, and Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies. Peter Reyner Banham (1922?1988) was an architectural writer, and one of the best, so books were clearly an important media for him. But given that one can count all of the books he wrote on ju...