Bike to the future. (Books). (book review)

MARK WIGLEY ON REYNER BANHAM

Nigel Whiteley, Reyner Banham: Historian of the immediate Future. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, forthcoming, Jan. 2002. 468 pages, $40.

Reyner Banham, Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1971; reprinted 2001. 275 pages, $18.

IT REMAINS A REMARKABLE FACT that the academic history of modern architecture was launched by someone who obsessed about the tail fins on automobiles, the fur lining of Jane Fonda's spacecraft in Barbarella, the paintwork on ice-cream vans, and the plastic ...