Movies: Reyner Banham

In this 1972 BBC Films production, architectural historian Reyner Banham takes the viewer on a tour of what he describes as the “four ecologies” of the city of Los Angeles: Surfurbia, Foothills, The Plains of Id, and Autopia (beach, basin, foothills,...

1970 film by Eli Noyes (son of architect and designer Eliot Noyes) and his friend Claudia Weill made a film documenting the Aspen Design Conference, which convened that year around the theme “Environment by Design." The film displays the confrontatio...

Charts how London has grown in size and spread into the surrounding country. Written and narrated by architectural critic Reyner Banham, A City Crowned with Green describes the unique character of London as a capital city. Banham looks at the histori...