Format:
X, 215 S. :
,
zahlr. Ill., graph. Darst.
ISBN:
978-1-4724-1443-4
Content:
Illustrated by critically examining a range of architectural journalism, from an article by artist Paul Nash in 'The Architectural Review', 1940, to an early project by contemporary French architects Lacaton & Vassal (1996) published in the journal '2G' in 2001, to recent photography by Hisao Suzuki published in the journal 'El Croquis', this book brings a radical and detailed analysis of the architectural media. It addresses issues of architectural criticism, architectural photography and the role of journal editors, and argues that the architectural media is a site of contestation and ambiguity regarding the role of critical and speculative thinking. The book highlights moments where a different type of critical voice emerges within the architectural media, indicating the possibility of a more progressive engagement with the media as a platform for critical thinking about architecture. 0The study is underpinned by theory about utopian thinking/discourse, primarily 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 the architectural media and begins to reveal a hitherto unexplored dimension of latent or unconscious discourse within the media portrait of architecture. Following Jameson s charting of the role of the utopian imagination in the modern and post-modern periods, the book suggests that genuine utopian thinking has undergone comprehensive suppression in our current times and that the task of theory is to now to detect its presence and explore its meaning within new forms and sites of cultural production
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Introduction〈br〉1 Utopic method: the future in the text. 'Where can we utter a discourse that would avoid becoming the object it critiques?'〈br〉2 Editorial projects and figural projections: Paul Nash's utopic contribution to The Architectural Review〈br〉3 A present presence: the work of Warren & Mosley in The Architects' Journal〈br〉4 'Now this square is beautiful': the utopic report of Lacaton & Vassal〈br〉5 Articles of landscape, the ruin and the 'foreign': the editorial practice of Andrew Mead〈br〉6 Of 'delegate figures' and 'magic light': the photographic utopics of Hisao Suzuki〈br〉Conclusion
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 9781472414441
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, EPUB ISBN 9781472414458
Language:
English
Keywords:
Architekturkritik
;
Architekturfotografie
;
Medien
;
Architekturzeitschrift
;
Architekturtheorie
