The Architecture of the Wire
Infrastructures of Telecommunication
$100.00
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
20 May 2025
Summary
A visually inspiring architectural history of the wire and its representations that illuminates the relationship between telecommunications, technology, and architecture.
The Architecture of the Wire explores the development of telecommunications infrastructure and its impact on the architectural and urban culture of the modern age—from poles, wires, and cables, to “micro-architectures,” such as the trophone and the telephone booth. Starting with the intrepid worldwide infrastructures…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262551632 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262551632 |
| Author: | Carlotta Daro, Christian Hubert |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 20 May 2025 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 159mm x 241mm |
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Critics Review
“The electrical wire is a ‘pipeline’ that serves ‘multiple media functions’, Darò argues in this sparky survey.”
—Apollo Magazine
“[The Architecture of the Wire] is packed with anecdotes, archive photos and artistic interpretations. It will make you stop and look at poles and antennas and will remind you how much digital technologies owe to the technological elements of the 19th century.”
—we make money not art
“A lively description of the intricate new society shaped by infrastructure during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.”
—Technology and Culture
“Darò provides a model for the continued relevance of archival work on telecommunication infrastructure as urban materiality twinned with urban immateriality. These are topics centered on the production of space that could—and should—be applied to further scholarship on urban telecommunication histories, the infrastructures of the Internet, mobile communication, and of the political economy of data centers.”
—Journal of Urban Affairs
Carlotta Daro
Carlotta Dar is an art and architectural historian. She is Associate Professor at the Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais and currently a guest senior researcher at ETH Zurich.
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