1st Edition

Architecture and the Image at the Turn of the 21st Century After Visibility

By Sanja Rodeš Copyright 2024
246 Pages 51 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

246 Pages 51 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

246 Pages 51 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines architecture, image, and media relationships as productive for architecture and architectural discourses. By arguing that the relationships between architecture and media cannot be dismissed via linear criticism of architecture and media or image, these relations are instead seen as a part of a sphere (a mediasphere) of complex relationships. In lieu of anything like a... Read more

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction 

Part I: Histories and Theories; Architecture in Iconomy and Translation

1  Image and the Media in the Work of Guy Debord and Jean Baudrillard

2  The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao as a Historical Precedent, and the Museum after the “Bilbao Effect” 

3  After 9/11: Considering Media Images and Skyscraper Architecture

Part II: Contemporary Tendencies: Architecture in Iconomy

4  The Image of the Hurricane Katrina and the Rebuilding of New Orleans

5  Image, Fashion and Architecture: The Case of Prada

Conclusion

After Visibility: Moving Forward 

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Sanja Rodeš is Lecturer in Architecture at Deakin University in Australia. Her research focuses on the complexity of the relationships between architecture, image, and media in the twenty‑first century. She has published in the same field, and is an external editor and contributor to Lori A. Brown and Karen Burns (eds.), The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopaedia of Women in Architecture 1960–2015 (London: Bloomsbury, 2024).