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Her book shows that modern architecture can only be understood when read in conjuction with photography, film, publicity, fashion, and other forms of visual display.

Her book shows that modern architecture can only be understood when read in conjuction with photography, film, publicity, fashion, and other forms of visual display. Looking at architecture through the lens of the mass media, Colomina entrusts architecture criticism with a wonderfully mobile, cinematic outlook. She inventively turns the tools of film theory, theroies of gaze and spectatorship, towards an understanding of architectural space. Colomina's book radically rethinks arhitecture as media. In doing so, the author gives space to gender issues

Privacy and Publicity. Modern Architecture As Mass Media.

Privacy and Publicity. Where conventional criticism portrays modern architecture as a high artistic practice in opposition to mass culture, Colomina sees the emerging systems of communication that have come to define twentieth-century culture-the mass media-as the true site within which modern architecture was produced. She considers architectural discourse as the intersection of a number of systems of representation such as drawings, models, photographs, books, films, and advertisements.

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Where conventional criticism portrays modern architecture as a high artistic practice in opposition to mass culture, Colomina sees the emerging systems of communication that have come to define twentieth-century culture.

Where conventional criticism portrays modern architecture as a high artistic practice in opposition to mass culture, Colomina sees the emerging systems of communication that have come to define twentieth-century culture - the mass media - as the true site within which modern architecture was produced. 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 doing so it radically displaces the traditional sense of space and subjectivity.

Beatriz Colomina is an architecture historian, theorist and curator. She is the founding director of the Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University, the Howard Crosby Butler Professor of the History of Architecture and Director of Graduate studies (PhD program) in the School of Architecture. Colomina is from Valencia and she began her initial studies of Architecture in Technical university of Valencia.

Privacy and Publicity : Modern Architecture As Mass Media. 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.

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Beatriz Colomina is Professor of Architecture and Founding Director of the Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University. Her most recent book is Doble exposicion: Arquitectura a traves del arte.

Place of Publication. Privacy and Publicity. Winner of Winner of the 1995 International Architecture Book Award sponsored by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) 1995. Trade Paperback (US). Beatriz Colomina is Professor of Architecture and Founding Director of the Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University. All listings for this product.