ARC132H1 Lecture Notes - Aspiran, Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, Henri Labrouste
Document Summary
Lecture 3 - histories of the present iii: media and architecture. Newspapers, radio, tv, etc. , collectively, as vehicles of mass communica"n. Historians - mass media = imp marker for modernity. Virtual space of exchanging ideas in newspapers, notes, tv, radio. Colomnia = imp theorist of rela"nship btwn arc + media. Takes images (crime scenes, iconic images of interiors) circulating in mass media --> constructed from scratch (using cardboard) model of scene (ex bathroom) + took photographs of crime scene (minus evidences of crime) Destroyed mockups (model of crime scene) --> photographs = published (in magazines, books) Images of arc return to origin --> mass media. Demand works @ rate of architect (i. e. , slow) Modern arc belongs to mass media --> arc = form of mass media. Modern arc = form of media --> built as image in pg"s of magazines + newspapers. Architect sell products, but image = space carefully constructed by architect.
