Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (672 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262032147 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 389 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Beatriz Colomina is Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at Princeton University
"Every designer should read this" according to Angel M. Steger. The best way, somtimes, to talk about a larger condition is to delve into specifics. Colomina uses Loos and Corbusier to draw out comparisons about the use of information.Considering the amount of architectural monographs being churned out on a daily basis, and the creation of terms such as "information architecture," it's extremely valuable to look at how modern architecture might have started from an alliance between types of publicity and design.Both Loos and Corbusier come out, biography-wise, as. wo said architecture = mass media. this book makes an audacious, much needed intervention into architectural history and theory: architecture is just one of many mass media that proliferated in the modern period. i find myself with this book and colomina's other writings wishing she would turn to actual rather than elite architectural mass media to prove her point, yet, other than beatriz preciado's "architecture = mass media" according to wo. this book makes an audacious, much needed intervention into architectural history and theory: architecture is just one of many mass media that proliferated in the modern period. i find myself with this book and colomina's other writings wishing she would turn to actual rather than elite architectural mass media to prove her point, yet, other than beatriz preciado's 2011/201architecture = mass media wo this book makes an audacious, much needed intervention into architectural history and theory: architecture is just one of many mass media that proliferated in the modern period. i find myself with this book and colomina's other writings wishing she would turn to actual rather than elite architectural mass media to prove her point, yet, other than beatriz preciado's 2011/2014 "pornotopia," this challege has yet to be undertaken.. "pornotopia," this challege has yet to be undertaken.. 011/"architecture = mass media" according to wo. this book makes an audacious, much needed intervention into architectural history and theory: architecture is just one of many mass media that proliferated in the modern period. i find myself with this book and colomina's other writings wishing she would turn to actual rather than elite architectural mass media to prove her point, yet, other than beatriz preciado's 2011/201architecture = mass media wo this book makes an audacious, much needed intervention into architectural history and theory: architecture is just one of many mass media that proliferated in the modern period. i find myself with this book and colomina's other writings wishing she would turn to actual rather than elite architectural mass media to prove her point, yet, other than beatriz preciado's 2011/2014 "pornotopia," this challege has yet to be undertaken.. "pornotopia," this challege has yet to be undertaken.. 01architecture = mass media wo this book makes an audacious, much needed intervention into architectural history and theory: architecture is just one of many mass media that proliferated in the modern period. i find myself with this book and colomina's other writings wishing she would turn to actual rather than elite architectural mass media to prove her point, yet, other than beatriz preciado's 2011/2014 "pornotopia," this challege has yet to be undertaken.. "pornotopia," this challege has yet to be undertaken.. book ok , less the quality The book seems to be a rough photocopied version of the original.Are you sure it's not a bootlegged copy?
She considers architectural discourse as the intersection of a number of systems of representation such as drawings, models, photographs, books, films and advertisements. "Privacy and Publicity" questions certain ideological assumptions underlying the received view of modern architecture and reconsiders the methodology of architectural criticism itself. This does not mean abandoning the architectural object, the building, but rather looking at it in a different way. The building is understood here in the same way as all the media that frame it, as a mechanism of representation in its own right. Colomina tracks this shift through the modern incarnations of the archive, the city fashion, war, sexuality, advertising, the window, and the museum, finally concentrating on the domestic interior that constructs the modern subject it appears merely to house.. Through a series of close readings of two major figures of the modern movement, Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier, Beatriz Colomina argues that architecture only becomes modern in its engagement with the mass media, and that in so doing it radically displaces the traditional sense of space and subjectivity. Where conventional criticism portrays modern architecture as a high artistic practice in opposition to mass culture, Columina sees the emerging systems of communication that have come to define 20th-century culture - the mass media - as the true site within which modern archit
With her investigation of the apparent contradiction between the realms of intimate life at home and public communication, Beatriz Colomina shapes a fresh interpretation of the design strategies of Loos and Le Corbusier. As with the subject matter of modern art, the peripheral turns out to be the central. (Jean-Louis Cohen, Professor, Ecole d'Architecture Paris-Villemin Institute of Fine Arts)This book starts out from rigorous research into archival documents that are apparently secondary but, as in a good detective story, the details lead into larger and more complex questions. As the book progresses, the entire structure that organizes the diffusion of the commonplace of modern architecture is gradually unfolded until we are presented with a reading that is both critical and highly inno