Name: X-Ray Architecture (en Inglés)
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Author: Beatriz Colomina
ISBN: 9783037784433

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Beatriz Colomina

Editorial

Lars Muller Publishers

Año

2019

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

200

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9783037784433

Categorías

Historia de la arquitectura

X-Ray Architecture (en Inglés)

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How our medical obsessions and the image of the body influence modern architecture. This book explores the impact of medical discourse and diagnostic technologies on the formation, representation and reception of modern architecture. It challenges the normal understanding of modern architecture by proposing that the architecture of the early 20th century was shaped by the dominant medical obsession of its time: tuberculosis and its primary diagnostic tool, the X-ray. If architectural discourse has from its beginning associated building and body, the body that it describes is the medical body, reconstructed by each new theory of health. Modern architects presented their architecture as a kind of medical instrument for protecting and enhancing the body. X-ray technology and modern architecture were born around the same time and evolved in parallel. While the X-ray exposed the inside of the body to the public eye, the modern building unveiled its interior, inverting the relationship between private and public. Colomina suggests that if we want to talk about the state of the art in buildings, we should look to the dominant obsessions about illness and the latest techniques of imaging the body―and ask what effects they may have on the way we conceive architecture.Beatriz Colomina is founding director of the program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University and Professor in the School of Architecture. She has written extensively on the interrelationships between architecture, art, media, sexuality and health.

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Beatriz Colomina és directora fundadora del programa interdisciplinari Media and Modernity de la Universitat de Princeton i catedràtica d’Història i Teoria a l’Escola d’Arquitectura d’aquesta universitat. Ha escrit extensament sobre arquitectura, art, sexualitat i mèdia. Els seus llibres inclouen Manifesto Architecture: The Ghost of Mies (Sternberg, 2014), Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X-197X (Actar, 2010), La domesticidad en guerra (ACTAR 2007), Privacidad y publicidad: la arquitectura moderna como medio de comunicación de masas (CENDEAC, 2010), i Sexualitat i espai (Universitat Politècnica de Barcelona, 1997). Ha comissariat diverses exposicions, entre les quals s’inclouen «Clip/Stamp/Fold» (2006), «Playboy Architecture» (2012) i «Radical Pedagogies» (2014). És comissària (amb Mark Wigley) de la tercera Biennal de Disseny d’Istanbul (2016).

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