Archi.pop : mediating architecture in popular culture / edited by D. Medina Lasansky.
Contributor(s): Lasansky, D. Medina [editor of compilation]
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BookPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014Description: x, 233 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781472531469 (paperback); 9781472522542 (hardback) .Subject(s): Architecture and society -- United States. -- History -- 20th century | Architecture and society -- United States. -- History -- 21st century | Design -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Design -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 21st century | Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 21st centuryDDC classification: 720.1030973 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 720.1030973 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00230992 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
How have architecture and design been represented in popular culture? How do these fictional reflections feed back into and influence 'the real world'? Archi.Pop: Architecture and Design in Popular Culture offers the first contemporary critical overview of this diverse and intriguing relationship in cultural forms including television, cinema, iconic buildings and everyday interiors, music and magazines.Bringing the study of architecture and culture firmly to the contemporary world, Archi.Pop offers a unique critical investigation into how this dynamic relationship has shaped the way we live and the way we interact with the constructed world around us.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-225) and index.
Domesticating Behavior. The Cultural Meanings of the Leave It to Beaver House / Holly Wlodarczyk -- 'Uglying Out': Shag Carpet and the Twists of Popular Taste / Chad Randl -- Vision and Crime: The Cineramic Architecture of John Lautner / Jon Yoder -- Playing. Dimensions of the Mass-Produced Doll House. Fisher-Price versus Playmobil / Mark S. Morris -- Honey, I Shrunk the Nation-State: the scales of global history in the Thai national theme park / Lawrence Chua -- Profligate Profile. The Palazzo Soprano / Denise Costanzo -- An Invitation to a Candy-Floss World / Barbara Penner -- Cinematic Travels. A Place of No Return: Frank Lloyd Wright's Undomestic Ennis House in Film / Merrill Schleier -- Gidget and the Creature from Venus: Madness, Monsters, and Dangerous Roman Ruins in Film / Sarah Benson -- Road Space. The World's Most Popular Architecture: the Technology and Interior of the Automobile / Iain Borden -- Ugly America & Architecture on the Highway: A Time-Life View of the 50s & 60s / Gabrielle Esperdy -- Urban Critiques. 'Life in Marvelous Times': Hip-hop, housing, and utopia / Lawrence Chua.
"Popular culture has become one of the foremost ways for trends to emerge in contemporary life. With a myriad number of viewers, the mediums of film, television and music have an unprecedented effect on how we live and arrange the spaces in which we live and work. Archi.Pop: Architecture and Design in Popular Culture offers the first contemporary critical overview of how architecture and design are represented within a variety of mediums of popular culture. The public is introduced to canonical architecture and design through a range of mass media and as a consequence is taught to recognise desire and consumption. This volume responds to this argument, exploring the different ways architecture and design are presented, represented and reflected within mass media. How can we read the contemporary design of Suburban American through the visual aesthetic of The Sopranos? How are housing projects represented and reflected through Hip-Hop? What significance has modern car design on contemporary interior design? What is Hollywood's role in the construction of domestic space? How did Shag carpeting influence modern design to the point of total saturation? Featuring a wide range of case studies from television, film, music, domestic interiors, magazines and many more, Archi.Pop brings the study of architecture and culture firmly to the contemporary world, offering a unique critical investigation into how this dynamic relationship has shaped the way we live and the way we interact with the constructed world around us." -- Publisher's description.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction
- 1 Iain Borden (The Bartlett, University College London, UK)
- The World's Most Popular Architecture: the Technology and Interior of the Automobile
- 2 Lawrence Chua (Art History, Hamilton College, USA)
- Life in Marvelous Times: Hip-hop, housing, and
- 3 Denise Costanzo (Architecture, Penn State University, USA)
- The Palazzo Soprano, or; McMansion as Threat
- 4 Gabrielle Esperdy (Architecture & Design, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
- Ugly America and the Shopping Mall: A Time-Life View of the 50s & 60s
- 5 Evangelos Kotsjoris (Architecture, Princeton University, USA)
- The situation room goes to the movies: the afterlife of the SAGE system in Hollywood
- 6 D. Medina Lasansky (History of Architecture, Cornell University, USA)
- Outdoor History
- 7 Mark Morris (Architecture, Cornell University, USA)
- Designer Doll Houses
- 8 Barbara Penner (The Bartlett, University College London, UK)
- The Aesthetics of Waste
- 9 Chad Randl (History of Architecture, Cornell University, USA)
- Making Sense of Shag: Carpet as Culture in the 1970s
- 10 Holly Wlodarczyk (Comparative Studies, University of Minnesota, USA)
- As Seen On TV: The Cultural Meanings of the Leave It to Beaver House
- 11 Sarah Benson (St. John's College, Annapolis, USA)
- Gidget Goes Crazy: Italian Monuments and Madness in Popular Film
- 12 Lawrence Chua (Art History, Hamilton College, USA)
- Honey, I Shrunk the Nation-State: theme parks and the making of a nationalist consciousness
- 13 Carlos Mare (Graffiti artist Mare 139, USA)
- Graffitecture - Graffiti as Architectural Language