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082			_aARCH _bCOL
100			_aColomina, Beatriz
245		0	_aPrivacy and Publicity
260			_aCambridge _bMIT Press _c1996
300			_a402 _c26.57 x 16.61 x 1.96 cm _rPaperback
504			_aPrivacy and Publicity boldly questions certain ideological assumptions underlying the received view of modern architecture and reconsiders the methodology of architectural criticism itself. Where conventional criticism portrays modern architecture as a high artistic practice in opposition to mass culture, Colomina sees the emerging systems of communication that have come to define twentieth-century culture—the mass media—as the true site within which modern architecture was produced. She considers architectural discourse as the intersection of a number of systems of representation such as drawings, models, photographs, books, films, and advertisements. This does not mean abandoning the architectural object, the building, but rather looking at it in a different way. The building is understood here in the same way as all the media that frame it, as a mechanism of representation in its own right. With modernity, the site of architectural production literally moved from the street into photographs, films, publications, and exhibitions—a displacement that presupposes a new sense of space, one defined by images rather than walls.
650			_aArchitecture
650			_aMass media
650			_aMedia studies
942			_cBKS
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