--- title: "3 Reyner Banham Quotes - Famous Art historian" description: "British architectural critic (1922–1988)... | Peter Reyner Banham was an English architectural critic and writer best known for his theoretical treatise..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b030/author-reyner-banham-87229.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Reyner Banham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b030/author-reyner-banham-87229.jpg) # Reyner Banham (1922–1988) Art Historian **3** quotes in **26** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Reyner Banham was an art historian. ## Quick Facts About Reyner Banham Born March 2, 1922 Died March 19, 1988 Profession Art Historian ## About Reyner Banham British architectural critic (1922–1988)... \| Peter Reyner Banham was an English architectural critic and 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. In the latter he categorized the Los Angeles experience into four ecolog ## Quotes by Reyner Banham > [“More important, Los Angeles has seen in this century the greatest concentration of fantasy-production, as an industry and as an institution, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reyner-banham/more-important-los-angeles-has-seen-in-this-century-the-greatest/) [Reyner Banham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reyner-banham/) [History](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/history/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/229/reyner-banham-87229_history_more-important-los-angeles-has-seen-in-t_1225066.jpg) > [In a landscape where nothing officially exists (otherwise it would not be ‘desert’), absolutely anything becomes thinkable, and may consequently happen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reyner-banham/in-a-landscape-where-nothing-officially-exists-otherwise-it-would-not/) [Reyner Banham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reyner-banham/) [Desert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/desert/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b8/reyner-banham-87229_desert_in-a-landscape-where-nothing-officially_2186588.png) > [When your house contains such a complex of piping, flues, ducts, wires, lights, inlets, outlets, ovens, sinks, refuse disposers, hi-fi re-verberators, antennae,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reyner-banham/when-your-house-contains-such-a-complex-of-piping-flues-ducts-wires/) [Reyner Banham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reyner-banham/) [Assistance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/assistance/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/226/reyner-banham-87229_assistance_when-your-house-contains-such-a-complex_2779151.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reyner-banham/#itemlist", "name": "Reyner Banham Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“More important, Los Angeles has seen in this century the greatest concentration of fantasy-production, as an industry and as an institution, in the history of Western man. In the guise of Hollywood, Los Angeles gave us the movies as we know them and stamped its image on the infant television industry. 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