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Reyner Banham (1922-88) was one of the most influential writers on architecture, design, and popular culture from the mid-1950s to the late 1980s.

a prolific architectural critic and writer best known for his 1960 theoretical treatise “Theory and Design in the First Machine Age”, and his 1971 book “Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies”

Reyner Banham most famous book: Theory and Design in the First Machine Age – (still in print with The MIT Press after forty years), was central to the overhaul of Modernism, and it gave Futurism and Expressionism credibility amid the dynamism and change o