Architecture, Media, Populism... and Violence (eBook, ePUB)

Reification and Representation II
Redaktion: Cairns, Graham

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The book sharpens our critique of the relationship between direct political action, its media representation, and the role it assigns to architecture - as played out globally in the age of mass media.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000713176
• Artikelnr.: 65250246

Autorenporträt

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 led academic departments in the UK and the US. He has worked in architectural studios in London and Hong Kong and previously founded and ran a performing arts organisation, Hybrid Artworks, specialised in video installation and performance writing. He is the author and editor of multiple books and articles on architecture as both a form of visual culture and a socio-political construct, including the Routledge volume that preceded this one Reification and Representation - Architecture in the Politico-Media-Complex. He is currently Director of the academic research organisation AMPS (Architecture, Media, Politics, Society), and Executive Editor of its associated journal Architecture_MPS.

Inhaltsangabe

Weaponising Architecture Graham Cairns Part One 1. Screening the Capitol
Riots Annie Dell'Aria 2. Housing Populism: Constructing the "Little Man's"
House, Deconstructing the "Queer" Home Malcolm Rio 3. Representation and
Refusal: From State Architecture to Highway Protests Jeffrey Kruth 4.
Architecture and Disciplinary Knowledge: A Case Study of Hong Kong's
Heritage and Politics Isaac Leung 5. Mediating Consensus and Enacting
Dissensus: Contested Space, Architecture and the Limits of Representation
Joern Langhorst Intersection 6. Architecture Journalism and the
Proto-Political Peggy Deamer and Ian Volner Part Two 7. The Press
Photography of 'Red Vienna', 1929-1938 Eva Branscome 8. Diplomacy Under
Siege: Belgium's Diplomatic Patrimony as Political Target during the Boxer
Rebellion (1900) and the Lumumba Assassination (1961) Charlotte Rottiers
and Bram De Maeyer 9. Social Infrastructure and Disintegration, Statecraft
and Democracy. Making an Example of Broadwater Farm Estate Alfie Peacock
10. Germania-on-Thames Murray Fraser 11. The Pornographic Scene of
Insurrection. On Disimaging the Architecture of Democracy from the Imagery
of the Potemkin Steps to the Reimaging of the Capitol Riot Nadir Lahiji
Index