REYNER BANHAM – AMERICA
2017-07-10British architectural historian Peter Reyner Banham was not only a vivid writer but also a compulsive snapshot photographer who described himself as an ‘observational historian.’ Banham repeatedly visited and recorded buildings, cities and landscapes with one of his many cameras and several Ecktachrome and Kodachrome films. This exhibition gives an insight into his America to which he moved in 1976 to join the University of New York in Buffalo. Industrial landscapes, car lots, ordinary houses, a view of the road; these photographs are only a selection of his hundreds of 35mm colour slides housed at the AA Photo Library that reveal his distinct photographic body of work.
Peter Reyner Banham was an English architectural critic and prolific writer best known for his theoretical treatise Theory and Design in the First Machine Age (1960) and for his 1971 book Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies.
Banham was based in London, but lived primarily in the United States from the late 1960s until the end of his life.
Opposite – Bus depot, Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, California
Exhibition runs through to July 28th, 2017
Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture
36 Bedford Square
London
WC1B 3ES
