This is Not Architecture - Media Constructions

Architecture's relationship with its representations is peculiar, powerful, and critical. Though driven by belief in the characteristics of physical reality, architecture is identified, discussed, and explained almost entirely through representations. Indeed, the representations are often described as though they were the architecture itself. The status of the imaginary project, and the shifts in media technology which affect how we make and see architecture, are part of the construct of media representations, including photographs, exhibitions, journalism, books, critical theory, by which we define architecture.
Kester Rattenbury has assembled architectural writers of different kinds -- historians, theorists, journalists, computer game designers, technologists, film-makers, and architects -- to reveal 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 representation is constructed.

About the author

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.

Summary

A collection of essays about different representations of architecture including architectural writing, drawing, journalism and history, photography and various cultures, ideas and bias that each media carries.

Additional text

'This is a thought-provoking book. Much of the argument is very accessible.' - Building Design

Product details

• Assisted by: Kester Rattenbury (Editor), Kester (University of Westminster Rattenbury (Editor), Rattenbury Kester (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9780415234061
• ISBN: 978-0-415-23406-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Weight: 725 g
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, farbige Illustrationen
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Geschichte der Architektur, ARCHITECTURE / General, The environment, History of Architecture, Theory of architecture, Civil engineering, surveying and building