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Author Colomina, Beatriz.

Title Privacy and publicity : modern architecture as mass media / Beatriz Colomina
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1994]
©1994

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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
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
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.
Le Corbusier, 1887-1965.
Loos, Adolf, 1870-1933 -- Archives.
Loos, Adolf, 1870-1933.
Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Philosophy.
Mass media and architecture.
Author Frichot, Helene (Lecturer)
LC no. 93036205
ISBN 0262032147
0262531399 (paperback)