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Electrographic Architecture

Author : Carolyn L. Kane
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520392604
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Electrographic Architecture written by Carolyn L. Kane and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "By bridging histories of technology, media studies, and aesthetics, Electrographic Architecture: New York Color, Las Vegas Light, and America's White Imaginary weaves a critical narrative of the ways in which illuminated light and color play key roles in the formation of America's white imaginary over the course of the last century. The book sheds light on the central question to which media scholars, architects, and historians of technology repeatedly turn: how can we use and speak about light and color in ways that are productive and commemorative, while remaining critical of the systems of white power undergirding them? Electrographic Architecture: New York Color, Las Vegas Light, and America's White Imaginary analyzes the history of electric light technologies in the aesthetic development of Times Square and Las Vegas. The book charts the rise of America's white walls, light empires, and neoclassical buildings in the early twentieth century, through the construction of polychromatic electrographic spectacles by midcentury, and their eclipse by informatically intense, invisible algorithms at the beginning of the new millennium. Drawing from histories of technology, media, and aesthetics, the book shows how the formation of America's electrographic surround runs isomorphic to a new world ethos of power, property, and possession. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and visual analysis, Electrographic Architecture's introduction, six core chapters, and conclusion illustrate how Times Square's polychromatic surround serves as a complex symbol of America's deep-seated dreams of utopic transcendence on the one hand, coupled with fears of loss and obsolescence on the other. In America's twentieth-century imaginary, whiteness aims to become everything but itself: colorful, lit, vibrant, and vital"--

Electrographic Architecture

Author : Carolyn L. Kane
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520392612
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Electrographic Architecture written by Carolyn L. Kane and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridging histories of technology, media studies, and aesthetics, Electrographic Architecture forges a critical narrative of the ways in which illuminated light and color have played key roles in the formation of America's white imaginary. Carolyn L. Kane charts the rise of the country's urban advertisements, light empires, and neoclassical buildings in the early twentieth century; the midcentury construction of polychromatic electrographic spectacles; and their eclipse by informatically intense, invisible algorithms at the dawn of the new millennium. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and visual analysis, Electrographic Architecture shows how the development of America's electrographic surround runs parallel to a new paradigm of power, property, and possession.

New York Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1968-12-09 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Los Angeles

Author : Reyner Banham
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520260153
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Los Angeles written by Reyner Banham and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: London: Allen Lane, 1971.

Googie Redux

Author : Alan Hess
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811842723
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book Googie Redux written by Alan Hess and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2004-10-14 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book that helped spark the retro craze for fifties architecture and introduced the term googie to the world is back! First published by Chronicle in 1986, this key survey of mid-century coffee shop and commercial architecture is still the standard work on the subject Googie Redux is a thoroughly revised and expanded edition of the classic and perennial top-selling book that rekindled the craze for 1950s coffee shop and commercial architecture. Long derided by critics as popular folly, the style - so named after John Lautner's eccentric Los Angeles coffee shop - was emblematic of Southern California's car-oriented architecture. By the time of the first edition's debut, these buildings were being demolished by the score. Alan Hess' 1985 Chronicle book did much not only to educate, legitimize, and popularize the style that characterized this endangered architecture, but it helped spark a resurgence of interest into midcentury modern design. Completely revised and significantly expanded in both text and images (some of them recently unearthed for this edition), this redesigned package features is still an entertaining and informative look at the rise, fall, and resurgence of the commercial architecture that changed the American landscape. Includes a greatly expanded guided tour of the iconic buildings in Southern California.

Electrographic Architecture

Author : Carolyn L. Kane
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520392590
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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New York Magazine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
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The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture

Author : James Stevens Curl
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191053856
Total Pages : 1040 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture written by James Stevens Curl and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing over 6,000 entries from Aalto to Zwinger and written in a clear and concise style, this authoritative dictionary covers architectural history in detail, from ancient times to the present day. It also includes concise biographies of hundreds of architects from history (excluding living persons), from Sir Francis Bacon and Imhotep to Liang Ssu-ch'eng and Francis Inigo Thomas. The text is complemented by over 260 beautiful and meticulous line drawings, labelled cross-sections, and diagrams. These include precise drawings of typical building features, making it easy for readers to identify particular period styles. This third edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture has been extensively revised and expanded, with over 900 new entries including hundreds of definitions of garden and landscape terms such as Baroque garden, floral clock, hortus conclusus, and Zen garden-design. Each entry is followed by a mini-bibliography, with suggestions for further reading. The full bibliography to the first edition (previously only available online) has also been fully updated and expanded, and incorporated into this new edition. This is an essential work of reference for anyone with an interest in architectural and garden history. With clear descriptions providing in-depth analysis, it is invaluable for students, professional architects, art historians, and anyone interested in architecture and garden design, and provides a fascinating wealth of information for the general reader.

A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198606788
Total Pages : 908 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (986 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

This is Not Architecture

Author : Kester Rattenbury
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415231800
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book This is Not Architecture written by Kester Rattenbury and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Review

Full Spectrum

Author : Elena Manferdini
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000907953
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Full Spectrum written by Elena Manferdini and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colour is architecture’s sharpest tool in the box. It has indexed everything from the feminine, cosmetic and vulgar to the pure, intrinsic and embodied. Colour has played a central role in the history of architecture. From the polychromy of the ancients to the great white interiors of high modernism. The figurative flourishes of postmodernism to the embedded sublime of contemporary building systems and facades. In contemporary architecture, colour has emerged as something powerful, both a mode of working and a political proposition. The second digital age has brought a fundamental shift in how architects engage colour. Employing the full range of colour puts forth a projective mode of action. It aids the democratisation of visual culture: opening the field to enable subjectivities, bring in new references and embrace new voices. This book explores the function of colour in contemporary architecture and argues it is not to present a vision of an idealised other world, but to prompt new imaginaries. Take in the full spectrum. Features: 100 Architects, Maya Alam, David Batchelor, Galo Canizares, Courtney Coffman, Fala Atelier, Marcelyn Gow, Sauerbruch Hutton, Sam Jacobs, Carolyn Kane, Guto Requena, Paulette Singley, Amanda Williams and Mimi Zeiger.

Urbanisms of Color

Author : Gareth Doherty
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781934510261
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Urbanisms of Color written by Gareth Doherty and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Color is a ubiquitous yet essential part of the city, creating and shaping urban form. Volume 3 of New Geographies brings together artists and designers, anthropologists, geographers, historians, and philosophers with the aim of exploring the potency, the interaction, and the neglected design possibilities of color at the scale of the city.

Signs, Streets, and Storefronts

Author : Martin Treu
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 142140494X
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Signs, Streets, and Storefronts written by Martin Treu and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treu tackles the architectural history and signage of Main Street and the strip—from painted boards nailed over crude storefronts to sleek cinemas topped with neon glitz. Honorable Mention, Architecture and Urban Planning, 2012 PROSE Awards Signs, Streets, and Storefronts addresses more than 200 years of signs and place-marking along America’s commercial corridors. From small-town squares to Broadway, State Street, and Wilshire Boulevard, Martin Treu follows design developments into the present and explores issues of historic preservation. Treu considers “common” architecture and its place-defining business signs as well as influential high-style design examples by taste-making leaders. Combining advertising and architectural history, the book presents a full picture of the commercial landscape, including design adaptations made for motorists and the migration from Main Street to suburbia. The dynamic between individual businesses and the common good has a major effect on the appearance of our country's Main Streets. Several forces are at work: technological advances, design imagination and the media, corporate propaganda, customer needs, and municipal mandates. Present-day controls have often led to a denuding of traditional commercial corridors. Such reform, Treu argues, has suppressed originality and radically cleared away years of accumulated history based on the taste of a single generation. A must-read for city planners, town councils, architects, sign designers, concerned citizens, and anyone who cares about the appearance and vitality of America’s commercial streets, this heavily illustrated book is equally appealing to armchair historians, small-town enthusiasts, and lovers of Americana.

Las Vegas in the Rearview Mirror

Author : Martino Stierli
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606061372
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Las Vegas in the Rearview Mirror written by Martino Stierli and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2013 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated reevaluation of the seminal architectural manifesto Learning from Las Vegas. It explores the significance of this controversial publication by situating it in the artistic, architectural, and urbanist discourse of the 1960s and '70s, and by evaluating the book's enduring influence of visual studies and architectural research.

The Story of Post-Modernism

Author : Charles Jencks
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119960096
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book The Story of Post-Modernism written by Charles Jencks and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-05-25 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Story of Post-Modernism, Charles Jencks, the authority on Post-Modern architecture and culture, provides the defining account of Post-Modern architecture from its earliest roots in the early 60s to the present day. By breaking the narrative into seven distinct chapters, which are both chronological and overlapping, Jencks charts the ebb and flow of the movement, the peaks and troughs of different ideas and themes. The book is highly visual. As well as providing a chronological account of the movement, each chapter also has a special feature on the major works of a given period. The first up-to-date narrative of Post-Modern Architecture - other major books on the subject were written 20 years ago. An accessible narrative that will appeal to students who are new to the subject, as well as those who can remember its heyday in the 70s and 80s.

Relearning from Las Vegas

Author : Aron Vinegar
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816650608
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Relearning from Las Vegas written by Aron Vinegar and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluates for the first time one of the foundational works in architecture criticism. Immediately on its publication in 1972, Learning from Las Vegas, by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour, was hailed as a transformative work in the history and theory of architecture, liberating those in architecture who were trying to find a way out of the straitjacket of architectural orthodoxies. Resonating far beyond the professional and institutional boundaries of the field, the book contributed to a thorough rethinking of modernism and was subsequently taken up as an early manifestation and progenitor of postmodernism.

Dictionary of Jargon (Routledge Revivals)

Author : Jonathon Green
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131790818X
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Jargon (Routledge Revivals) written by Jonathon Green and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1987, the Dictionary of Jargon expands on its predecessor Newspeak (Routledge Revivals, 2014) as an authoritative reference guide to specialist occupational slang, or jargon. Containing around 21, 000 entries, the dictionary encompasses a truly eclectic range of fields and includes extensive coverage of both British and U.S. jargon. Areas dealt with range from marketing to medicine, from advertising to artificial intelligence and from skiing to sociology. This is a fascinating resource for students of lexicography and professional lexicographers, as well as the general inquisitive reader.