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Title: Reyner Banham papers
Date (inclusive): 1877-1988, undated (bulk 1960-1988)
Number: 910009
Creator/Collector:
Banham, Reyner
Physical Description:
20.7 linear feet
(29 boxes, 5 flatfiles)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, California, 90049-1688
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: British-born architectural historian and critic, educator, and editor, 1922-1988. The collection contains draft manuscripts,
printed material and research notes for eight of Banham's published books, for unpublished projects, and many articles and
reviews related to the history of architecture and design. Included are the notes and manuscripts for his public lectures
and his teaching. Other files document his participation on design juries and his consultation work.
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English
Reyner Banham (1922-1988) was a British-born architectural historian, critic, and educator. He taught at the University of
London, SUNY Buffalo, New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, and the University of California at Santa Cruz. His writings
and lectures influenced a generation of architects and historians of modern architecture. Banham's writings include reviews,
journalistic and scholarly essays, and monographs. Of his many monographs, perhaps the best known are:
Theory and design in the first machine age (1960),
Los Angeles: the architecture of four ecologies (1971),
Architecture of the well-tempered environment (1984), and
Concrete Atlantis (1986). After his death, Mary Banham edited
A critic writes, a compilation of Banham's essays (1996).
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Reyner Banham Papers, 1877-1988, undated, bulk 1960-1988, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 910009.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa910009
The Getty acquired the bulk of the papers from Mary Banham in 1991. The International Design Conference in Aspen material
was added in 1993.
Kelly Nipper processed the collection in 1996; further processing occurred in 2000. Emmabeth Nanol physically reprocessed
the collection and made minor changes to the finding aid under the supervision of Ann Harrison in 2012.
The Getty Research Institute holds further material relating to Series VI. International Design Conference in Aspen. See also
the International Design Conference in Aspen records, 1949-2006, Accession no. 2007.M.7.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains research notes, manuscripts, and printed materials for eight of Reyner Banham's published books, for
unpublished projects, and many articles and reviews related to the history of modern and contemporary architecture and design.
Included are the notes and manuscripts for his public lectures and his teaching. Other files document his participation on
design juries and his consultation work. Printed materials and reports from the International Design Conference in Aspen (1950-1988)
document Banham's involvement with the Aspen design conference during its formative years.
The papers are arranged in six series:
.Series I. Book manuscripts, 1877-1987;
Series II. Articles and reviews, 1970-1988, undated;
Series III. Conferences, lectures, symposia, 1965-1988, undated;
Series IV. Consulting and design juries, 1966-1988, undated;
Series V. Miscellaneous papers, 1913-1988, undated;
Series VI. International Design Conference in Aspen, 1950-1988, undated
Banham, Reyner
Herron, Ron
Piano, Renzo
Ransome, Ernest L. (Ernest Leslie), 1844-1917
Rogers, Richard George
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959
Brooklyn Museum
International Design Conference in Aspen
Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners
Tennessee Valley Authority
Architecture--California--Los Angeles
Architecture--Historiography
Architecture--United States--20th century
Buildings--Environmental engineering
Concrete construction-United States
High technology
Buffalo (N.Y.)--Buildings
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Description and travel
Architecture of the well-tempered environment Aspen papers Concrete Atlantis Los Angeles: the architecture of four ecologies Megastructure Scenes in America Deserta
Blueprints (reprographic copies)
Negatives
Photographic prints
Photographs, Original
Piano, Renzo
Price, Cedric
Rogers, Richard George
Waterhouse, Alan