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Informationen zum Autor Léa-Catherine Szacka is an architect, writer and Senior Lecturer in Architectural Studies at the University of Manchester, UK.Examining the critical role of the media in shaping architectural postmodernism. Zusammenfassung Mediated Messages presents a collection of original writing exploring the role played by the media in the development of postmodern architecture in the 1970s and 80s.The book’s twelve chapters and case-studies examine a range of contemporary periodicals and exhibitions to explore their role in the postmodern. This focus on mediation as a key feature of architectural post-modernism, and the recognition that post-modernism grew out of developments in the media, opens up the possibility of an important new account of post-modernism distinct from existing narratives.Accompanied by a contextualizing introduction, the essays are arranged across four thematic sections (covering: images; international postmodernisms; high and low culture; and postmodern architects as theorists) and present a range of case-studies with a genuinely international scope. Altogether, this work makes a substantial contribution to the historical account of architectural postmodernism, and will be of great interest to researchers in postmodernism as well as those examining the role of the media in architectural history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword - Barry Bergdoll Introduction - Léa-Catherine Szacka and Veronique Patteeuw Part I. Architecture as Images Versus Image as Architecture: Postmodern Architecture's Pursuit of a New Spatial and Visual Culture 1. Bau Magazine and the Architecture of Media (1965-1970) – Eva Branscome 2. Serial Postmodernity: Architectural Association Publications in the 1980s – Igor Marjanovic3. 'I Decline to be a Missionary': Late Modern Mirrors and Transformations in Modern Architecture (1980) – Michael Kubo Part II. Inter_National Postmodernisms: Micro-Narratives and Their Contribution to Postmodern Architecture 4. Reima Pietila (Postmodern) Morphologies – Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen5. Issues of Realism: Archithese, Postmodernism and Swiss Architecture (1971-1986) – Irina Davidovici 6. Alessandro Mendini, Domus and the Postmodern Vision (1979-1985) – Silvia Micheli Part III. Theory and Practice: Postmodern Architects as Thinkers 7. Transition to 'Discourse': Architectural Theory in Postmodern Australia - Andrew Leach8. Charles Moore's Perspecta Essays: Towards Postmodern Eclecticism - Patricia Morton9. The Alibi of Style: Reading Classicism in Architectural Design Magazine (1979-1982) - Elisabeth Keslacy10. Postmodern Architects as Theorists: the Case of the Essay Collection (1988-1998) - Stephanie Dadour Part IV. Institutionalisation 11. Institutionalising Postmodernism: reconceiving the Journal and the Exhibition at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in 1976 -Kim Forster12. Image, Medium, Artifact: Heinrich Klotz and the Postmodern Architecture Museum- Daniela Fabricius BibliographyIndex...
