Konrad Wachsmann's Television

By:

Wigley, Mark

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York Sternberg Press 2021Description: 256 4.25 x 0.98 x 6 inchesISBN:

9783956795350

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

ARCH KON

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Arthshila Ahmedabad Cluster: 4D	ARCH/KON (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		BK00782

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A novel reading of the work of one of the most influential designers of the twentieth century. In this provocative intellectual biography, architectural historian Mark Wigley makes the surprising claim that the thinking behind modernist architect Konrad Wachsmann's legendary projects was dominated by the idea of television. Investigating the archives of one of the most influential designers of the twentieth century, Wigley scrutinizes Wachsmann's design, research, and teaching, closely reading a succession of unseen drawings, models, photographs, correspondence, publications, syllabi, reports, and manuscripts to argue that Wachsmann is an anti-architect—a student of some of the most influential designers of the 1920s who dedicated thirty-five post–Second World War years to the disappearance of architecture.

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