Gebundenes Buch

Visioning Technologies

The Architectures of Sight

Herausgeber: Cairns, Graham

Beschreibung

Visioning Technologies brings together a collection of texts from leading theorists to examine how architecture has been, and is, reframed and restructured by the visual and theoretical frameworks introduced by different 'technologies of sight' - understood to include orthographic projection, perspective drawing, telescopic devices, photography, film and computer visualization, amongst others.

Autor

Graham Cairns is an academic and author in the field of architecture who has written extensively on film, advertising and political communication. He has held Visiting Professor positions at universities in Spain, the UK, Mexico, the Gambia, South Africa and the US. He has worked in architectural studios in London and Hong Kong and previously founded and ran a performing arts organization, Hybrid Artworks, specializing in video installation and performance writing. He is author and editor of multiple books and articles on architecture as both a form of visual culture and a socio-political construct. He developed this book during a two year period as Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, New York. He is currently director of the academic research organization AMPS (Architecture, Media, Politics, Society), and Executive Editor of its associated journal Architecture_MPS. He is Honorary Senior Research Associate at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 175mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9781472454966
• ISBN-10: 1472454960
• Artikelnr.: 44751219