This is Not Architecture: Media Constructions

Author:   Kester Rattenbury (University of Westminster, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780415231800


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   25 April 2002
Format:   Paperback
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This is Not Architecture: Media Constructions


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Architecture's relationship with its representations is peculiar, powerful and critical. Though driven by belief in the characteristics of physical reality, architecture is identified, discussed, and explained almost entirely through representations. Indeed, the representations are often described as though they were architecture itself. The status of the imaginary project, and the shifts in media technology which affect how we make and see architecture, are part of a construct of media representations, including photographs, exhibitions, journalism, books, critical theory, by which we define what is architecture. This is Not Architecture assembles architectural writers of different kinds - historians, theorists, journalists, computer game designers, technologists, film-makers and architects - to discuss the characteristics, cultures, limitations and bias of the different kinds of media, and to build up an argument as to how this complex culture of representations is constructed. James Ackerman, Philip Campbell, Beatriz Colomina, Paul Finch, David Greene, Alberto Perez Gomez, Charles Jencks, Patrick Keiller, William Mitchell, Alan Powers, Kester Rattenbury, Pierluigi Serraino,

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Author:   Kester Rattenbury (University of Westminster, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.530kg
ISBN:  

9780415231800


ISBN 10:   0415231809
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   25 April 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

10. Framing Icons: Two Girls, Two Audiences: The Photography of Case Study House £22. 11. Naturally Biased: Architecture in the National Press. 12. The Architectural Book: Image and Accident. 13. Post-Modernism and the Revenge of the Book. 14. Architectural Publishing - an Alphabetical Guide. The Construction Theory. 15. ArchitectureProduction. 16. From Dematerialism to Depoliticisation in Architecture. 17. Wallpaper Person: Notes of the Behaviour of a New Species. 18. Everything Counts in Large Amounts (The Sound of Geography Collapsing). Order: Perspective and Architectural Representation. On the Origins of Architectural Photography. Architectural Cinematography. The Revenge of Place. Section Two: The Shape of Representation. Iconic Pictures. Think of it as a Farm! Diagrams: Interactive Instruments in Operation. The Height of the Kick: Designing Gameplay. Photo-Graph, Photo-Shop. Section Three: The Reporting of Architecture. Framing Icons: Two Girls, Two Audiences: The Photography of Case Study House £22. Naturally Biased: Architecture in the National Press. The Architectural Book: Image and Accident. Post-Modernism and the Revenge of the Book. Architectural Publishing - an Alphabetical Guide. Section Four: The Construction Theory. Architecture Production. Wallpaper Person: Notes of the Behaviour of a New Species. Everything Counts in Large Amounts (The Sound of Geography Collapsing).

Reviews

What Rattenbury furthers in this anthology is an awareness that architecture is enriched -- and not impoverished -- by the communicative power of the drawn or captured image and its eventual dissemination.. <br>- Journal of Architectural Education, Vol. 57, Issue 4, May 2004 <br>


'This is a thought-provoking book. Much of the argument is very accessible.' - Building Design


Author Information

Kester Rattenbury is an architectural writer and teacher. She trained as an architect before doing a PhD on the coverage of architecture in the UK national press, and then going on to work as an architectural journalist. She now works as a freelance architectural writer and reviewer, and teaches a design to architectural students. She lives and works in London.

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