Image, Text, Architecture
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Image, Text, Architecture

The Utopics of the Architectural Media

  1. 252 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Image, Text, Architecture

The Utopics of the Architectural Media

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781472414434
eBook ISBN
9781317118862
Edition
1
Topic
Architecture
Subtopic
Architecture General

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 Utopic Method: The Future in the Text
  9. 2 Editorial Projects and Figural Projections: Paul Nash’s Utopic Contribution to The Architectural Review
  10. 3 A Present Presence: The Work of Warren & Mosley in The Architects’ Journal
  11. 4 ‘Now, this square is beautiful’: The Utopic Report of Lacaton & Vassal1
  12. 5 Articles of Landscape, the Ruin and the ‘Foreign’: The Editorial Practice of Andrew Mead
  13. 6 Of ‘Delegate Figures’ and ‘Magic Light’: The Photographic Utopics of Hisao Suzuki
  14. Conclusion
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index