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5.0 out of 5 stars
Rich in content and beautifully composed, Artificial Light is a compelling and original critique of architectural discourse.,
This review is from: Artificial Light: A Narrative Inquiry into the Nature of Abstraction, Immediacy, and Other Architectural Fictions (Paperback)
An immersive and enjoyable exploration of the latent assumptions in contemporary architectural discourse, Artificial Light convincingly questions notions of experience as related to the `constructed realities' commonly touted by many architectural theorists. As one of the opening pages of the book states, "there are as many things as there are views of things," situating the dissection that is to follow. Playing against hauntingly beautiful photography woven throughout the text, Mitnick constructs layers of meaning through fluid and coherent writing that engages the reader with a gamut of performative styles, gaming with the medium to affect the message. Rather than concluding on some point of crisis, Artificial Light cuts a hole through the canvas and sidesteps the need for polemic; the nature of things has been opened to the multitude, and it is for the reader to determine.
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Artificial Light: A Narrative Inquiry into the Nature of Abstraction, Immediacy, and Other Architectural Fictions by Keith Mitnick (Paperback - June 19, 2008)
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