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Mar 22, 1988 reyner banham, a british architectural historian whose work traced the rise and fall of modernism and societys attitudes toward it, died of cancer saturday in london. Joe day leads deegan day design llc and serves on the design faculty at the southern california institute of architecture. Journal of the society of architectural historians vol. The first part of this paper looks at the shared values and parallels between the two books before moving on to significant differences of. Reyner banham has 21 books on goodreads with 4738 ratings.
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