Reification and Representation: Architecture in the Politico-Media-Complex (Routledge Research in Architecture) - Hardcover

Cairns, Graham

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138927414 ISBN 13: 9781138927414

Verlag: Routledge, 2018

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The book investigates how images of architecture are used in UK and US election campaigns as advertising backdrops, sets for photo shoots, metaphors in policy arguments, and how this has silently, but fundamentally, influenced built form through the ages.

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Graham Cairns is the author and editor of multiple books and articles on architecture as both a form of visual culture and a socio-political construct. He has held positions at universities in Spain, the UK, Mexico, the Gambia, South Africa and the US. He has worked in architectural studios in London and Hong Kong and founded the performing arts organisation, Hybrid Artworks in the 1990s. He is currently Chair of Architecture at Miami University, Ohio, Honorary Senior Research Associate at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, and Director of the academic research organisation AMPS and its scholarly journal Architecture_MPS.

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1138927414
• ISBN 13: 9781138927414
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 230
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