Privacy and Publicity
Modern Architecture As Mass Media
$103.31
- Paperback
402 pages
- Release Date
28 February 1996
Summary
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. Privacy and Publicity boldly questions certain ideological assumptions underlying the received view of modern architecture and reconsiders the methodology of architectural criticism itself. Wher…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262531399 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262531399 |
| Author: | Beatriz Colomina |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 402 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 28 February 1996 |
| Weight: | 703g |
| Dimensions: | 267mm x 165mm x 17mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
“An absorbing and quiet book. Absorbing in that it does not follow a single line of thought to its logical conclusion, but instead presents a series of meditations on diverse yet richly interconnected materials. And quiet in that the position of neither Le Corbusier nor Loos is ever actively argued against. They are, rather, studies in their respective habitats, and what we in turn observe is the construction of the look that sees them.” –Michael Archer, Art Monthly
About The Author
Beatriz Colomina
Beatriz Colomina is Professor of Architecture and Founding Director of the Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University. She is the editor of Sexuality and Space, which was awarded the International Book Award by the American Institute of Architects. She is the coeditor of Cold War Hot Houses- Inventing Postwar Culture from Cockpit to Playboy. Her most recent book is Doble exposici n- Arquitectura a traves del arte.
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