"This book offers a unique perspective on contemporary architecture, exploring its position in mediatization through technological apparatuses. It introduces the novel concept of apparatus-centricity and mediatization of architecture, which has significant disciplinary ramifications. The book's narrative traces the development of architecture from the modernist era to the present digital age, highlighting technological development, aestheticizing technologies, and theoretical changes. It focuses on how architecture incorporates and becomes a significant part of media technologies and virtualization, positioning itself as a crucial part of today's cognitive dispositive. The book reflects on the concept of dispositive (dispositif) for architecture and investigates the interactions between architecture and media through seminal examples from architecture, music, and media studies. The book explores how architecture is reshaped and influenced by theory and practice in media, ultimately serving as a cognitiveagent. It underscores that architecture significantly influences our image-driven affective world through its apparatus-centric approach to conception, design, production, and mediatization. This book offers a unique perspective on the position of architecture in mediatization for researchers and advanced students in design, theory, and history. It also provides a valuable resource for cultural and media studies into the interdisciplinary impact of architecture in a mediatized culture at large"--
This book offers a novel perspective on contemporary architecture, exploring its position in mediatization, attained through technological apparatuses. It introduces the novel concepts of apparatus-centricity and mediatization of architecture, which have significant disciplinary and cultural ramifications.
Highlighting key technological and theoretical developments, the book’s narrative traces the transformation of architecture from the modernist era to the present, digital age. En route, it reflects on how architecture becomes a crucial element of shifting dispositives through its confluence with technologies of aestheticization and virtualization, and by emblematizing ecological ideals. It also illuminates the reconfiguring of architectural practice through examining surprising interactions and analogies between architecture and music, whose developments in notation and codification continually change the relationship between composer and performer. The book explores how architecture is reshaped by broader theory and practice in media and ultimately serves as a cognitive agent. It underscores that architecture profoundly influences our phantasmagoric, image-driven affective world through its increasingly apparatus-centric approach to conception, design, production, and mediatization.
Architecture in the Age of Mediatizing Technologies
brings into focus the behavior of architecture in mediatization for researchers and advanced students in architectural design, theory, and history. As an investigation into the interdisciplinary impact of architecture in a mediatized culture at large, it also provides a valuable resource for cultural and media studies.
This book offers a unique perspective on contemporary architecture, exploring its position in mediatization through technological apparatuses. It introduces the novel concept of apparatus-centricity and mediatization of architecture, which has significant disciplinary ramifications.
