Image, Text, Architecture The Utopics of the Architectural Media
Auteur : Wilson Robin
Image, Text, Architecture brings a radical and detailed analysis of the modern and contemporary architectural media, addressing issues of architectural criticism, architectural photography and the role of journal editors. It covers examples as diverse as an article by British artist Paul Nash in The Architectural Review, 1940, an early project by French architects Lacaton & Vassal published in the journal 2G, 2001, and recent photography by Hisao Suzuki for the Spanish journal El Croquis. At the intersection of image and text the book also reveals the role of the utopian impulse within the architectural media, drawing on theories of utopian discourse from the work of the French semiotician and art theorist Louis Marin, and the American Marxist critic Fredric Jameson. Through this it builds a fresh theoretical approach to journal studies, revealing a hitherto unexplored dimension of "latent" or "unconscious" discourse within the media portrait of architecture. The purpose of this enquiry is to highlight moments where a different type of critical voice emerges on the architectural journal page, indicating the possibility of a more progressive engagement with the media as a platform for critical and speculative thinking about architecture, and to rethink the journals? role within architectural history.
Date de parution : 10-2017
17.4x24.6 cm
Date de parution : 08-2015
17.4x24.6 cm
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Mots-clés :
Post War; Architectural Photography; architectural; Monster Field; photography; Architectural Media; utopian; Suzuki’s Work; gure; Utopian Expression; media; Architectural Photograph; photograph; Mosley’s Work; object; Utopian Discourse; andrew; Andrew Mead; mead; Editorial Frame; discourse; Editorial Discourse; Mead’s Articles; El Croquis; Past Tense; Semiotic Rectangle; Journal Page; Architectural Journal; Utopian Works; Architectural Object; Marin’s Work; Bristol Fashion; Nash’s Work; Magic Light; Pallant House Gallery