This is Not Architecture assembles architectural writers of different kinds - historians, theorists, journalists, computer game designers, technologists, film-makers and architects - to discuss the characteristics, cultures, limitations and bias of the different kinds of media, and to build up an argument as to how this complex culture of representations is constructed.
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What Rattenbury furthers in this anthology is an awareness that architecture is enriched -- and not impoverished -- by the communicative power of the drawn or captured image and its eventual dissemination..
–Journal of Architectural Education, Vol. 57, Issue 4, May 2004
–Journal of Architectural Education, Vol. 57, Issue 4, May 2004
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Kester Rattenbury is an architectural writer and teacher. She trained as an architect before doing a PhD on the coverage of architecture in the UK national press, and then going on to work as an architectural journalist. She now works as a freelance architectural writer and reviewer, and teaches a design to architectural students. She lives and works in London.
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Terrific little book filled with short provocative pieces about architecture and it's complicated relationship to publicity and image production.
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Virtual reality is an old story. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
architectural coverage, blasé individual, fixed attractions, interactive costs, architectural publishing, high architecture, architectural photography, architectural representation, architectural books, architectural culture, descriptive geometry Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Las Vegas, Mansion House, Robert Venturi, Los Angeles, Case Study House, Walter Benjamin, Architectural Association, Bank of England, Charles Jencks, David Greene, Kester Rattenbury, Prince Charles, Quattro Libri, Zaha Hadid, Bernard Tschumi, James Stirling, L'Esprit Nouveau, Peter Smithson, Rem Koolhaas, Royal Opera House, Andreas Huyssen, Beatriz Colomina, Covent Garden, Gilles Deleuze New!
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Virtual reality is an old story. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
architectural coverage, blasé individual, fixed attractions, interactive costs, architectural publishing, high architecture, architectural photography, architectural representation, architectural books, architectural culture, descriptive geometry Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Las Vegas, Mansion House, Robert Venturi, Los Angeles, Case Study House, Walter Benjamin, Architectural Association, Bank of England, Charles Jencks, David Greene, Kester Rattenbury, Prince Charles, Quattro Libri, Zaha Hadid, Bernard Tschumi, James Stirling, L'Esprit Nouveau, Peter Smithson, Rem Koolhaas, Royal Opera House, Andreas Huyssen, Beatriz Colomina, Covent Garden, Gilles Deleuze New!
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- Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media by Beatriz Colomina on 4 pages
- Theory Of The Avant-Garde (Theory and History of Literature) by Peter Burger on page 211, page 212, and page 221
- The Language of Post-Modern Architecture by Charles Jencks in Front Matter, page 197, and page 200
- Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory by Neil Leach in Front Matter, page 243, and page 245
- Architectural Representation and the Perspective Hinge by Alberto Perez-Gomez in Front Matter, and page 24
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- Reading the Everyday by Joe Moran in Back Matter
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