Reyner Banham (1922–1988)

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1. Reyner Banham

   Author of Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies, Theory and Design in the First Machine Age, Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment

2. Kenneth Frampton

   Author of Modern Architecture: A Critical History, Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture, Labour, Work and Architecture

3. Robert Venturi

   Author of Learning from Las Vegas, Robert Venturi: Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

4. Rem Koolhaas

   Author of Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan, S,M,L,XL, Rem Koolhaas: Conversations with Students (Architecture at Rice, 30)

5. Colin Rowe

   Author of Collage City, The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays, As I Was Saying, Vol. 1: Texas, Pre-Texas, Cambridge

6. Manfredo Tafuri

   Author of Architecture and Utopia: Design and Capitalist Development, Theories and History of Architecture

7. Mike Davis

   Author of City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster

8. Charles Jencks

   Author of Modern movements in architecture, Le Corbusier and the Tragic View of Architecture, Bizarre Architecture

9. Robin Evans

   Author of Translations from Drawing to Building and Other Essays (AA Documents), The Projective Cast: Architecture and Its Three Geometries

10. S. Giedion

    Author of Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition

11. Spiro Kostof

    Author of A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals, The Architect: Chapters in the History of the Profession, America by Design

12. Vincent Scully

    Author of Architecture: The Natural and the Manmade, American Architecture and Urbanism, The Shingle Style and the Stick Style: Architectural Theory and Design from Downing to the Origins of Wright; Revised Edition (Yale Publications in the History of Art)

13. Le Corbusier

    Author of Towards a New Architecture

14. Aldo Rossi

    Author of The Architecture of the City (Oppositions Books)

15. Ulrich Conrads

    Author of Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture

16. Peter Cook

    Author of Archigram, Morphosis: Buildings and Projects [Vol. 1] (v. 1), Architecture: Action and Plan

17. Joseph Rykwert

    Author of On Adam's House in Paradise: The Idea of the Primitive Hut in Architectural History

18. Alberto Pérez-Gómez

    Author of Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science

19. Peter Lang

    Author of Superstudio: Life without Objects

20. K. Michael Hays

    Author of Architecture Theory since 1968