This is Not Architecture: Media Constructions

by Kester Rattenbury (Editor)

Overview

This is Not Architecture assembles architectural writers of different kinds - historians, theorists, journalists, computer game designers, technologists, film-makers and architects - to discuss 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 representations is constructed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134567669
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/04/2005
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	8 MB

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.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: This is Not Architecture. Partial History of Virtual Reality. 2. The Revelation of Order: Perspective and Architectural Representation. 3. On the Origins of Architectural Photography. Architectural Cinematography. 4. The Revenge of Place. The Shape of Representation. 5. Iconic Pictures. 6. Think of it as Farm! 7. Diagrams: Interactive Instruments in Operation. 8. The Height of the Kick: Designing Gameplay. 9. Photo-Graph, Photo-Shop. The Reporting of Architecture.

Editorial Reviews

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

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