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Author Wilson, Robin, 1971- author.

Title Image, text, architecture : the utopics of the architectural media / Robin Wilson
Published Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate, [2015]
©2015

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Series Online access with DDA: Askews (Architecture)
Contents Utopic method: the future in the text. 'Where can we utter a discourse that would avoid becoming the object it critiques?' -- Editorial projects and figural projections: Paul Nash's utopic contribution to The Architectural Review -- A present presence: the work of Warren & Mosley in The Architects' Journal -- 'Now this square is beautiful': the utopic report of Lacaton & Vassal -- Articles of landscape, the ruin and the 'foreign': the editorial practice of Andrew Mead -- Of 'delegate figures' and 'magic light': the photographic utopics of Hisao Suzuki
Summary Image, Text, Architecture brings a radical and detailed analysis of the modern and contemporary architectural media, addressing issues of architectural criticism, architectural photography and the role of journal editors. It covers examples as diverse as an article by British artist Paul Nash in The Architectural Review, 1940, an early project by French architects Lacaton & Vassal published in the journal 2G, 2001, and recent photography by Hisao Suzuki for the Spanish journal El Croquis. At the intersection of image and text the book also reveals the role of the utopian impulse within the architectural media, drawing on theories of utopian discourse from the work of the French semiotician and art theorist Louis Marin, and the American Marxist critic Fredric Jameson. Through this it builds a fresh theoretical approach to journal studies, revealing a hitherto unexplored dimension of "latent" or "unconscious" discourse within the media portrait of architecture. The purpose of this enquiry is to highlight moments where a different type of critical voice emerges on the architectural journal page, indicating the possibility of a more progressive engagement with the media as a platform for critical and speculative thinking about architecture, and to rethink the journals' role within architectural history
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Architectural criticism.
Architectural writing.
architectural criticism.
ARCHITECTURE -- Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Landmarks & Monuments.
ARCHITECTURE -- Professional Practice.
ARCHITECTURE -- Reference.
Architectural criticism
Architectural writing
Form Electronic book
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