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Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media

Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media

by Colomina, Beatriz
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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. Architecture is more than buildings that we can experience firsthand, it also exists as a representation through drawings, photographs, writings, films, or advertising. 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.

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BrandMIT Press
Pub dateFeb 28, 1996
ISBN-100262531399
ISBN-139780262531399
LanguageEnglish
Dimensions0.77 × 6.54 × 10.46 in
Weight2 lb
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