| Description |
xi, 389 pages : illustrations ; 58 mc |
| Contents |
Archive -- City -- Photography -- Publicity -- Museum -- Interior -- Window |
| Summary |
Privacy and Publicity boldly questions certain ideological assumptions underlying the received view of modern architecture and reconsiders the methodology of architectural criticism itself. Where conventional criticism portrays modern architecture as a high artistic practice in opposition to mass culture, Colomina sees the emerging systems of communication that have come to define twentieth-century culture -the mass media - as the true site within which modern architecture was produced. She considers architectural discourse as the intersection of a number of systems of representation such as drawings, models, photographs, books, films, and advertisements. 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 |
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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 doing so it radically displaces the traditional sense of space and subjectivity |
| Analysis |
Architecture Modernism |
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Architecture Modernism |
| Notes |
Part of the Asia Pacific Design Library. QSL |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [337]-379) and index |
| Subject |
Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 -- Archives.
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Le Corbusier, 1887-1965.
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Loos, Adolf, 1870-1933 -- Archives.
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Loos, Adolf, 1870-1933.
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Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Philosophy.
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Mass media and architecture.
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| Author |
Frichot, Helene (Lecturer)
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| LC no. |
93036205 |
| ISBN |
0262032147 |
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0262531399 (paperback) |
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