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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Wigley, Mark (1956-....)
Titre(s) : Konrad Wachsmann's television [Texte imprimé] : Post-architectural transmissions / Mark Wigley
Publication : Berlin : Sternberg Press, 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. ( 400 p.) : ill. en coul. ; 15 cm
Collection : Critical spatial practice ; 11
Lien à la collection : Critical spatial practice
Note(s) : In this provocative intellectual biography, architectural historian Mark Wigley
makes the surprising claim that the thinking behind modernist architect Konrad Wachsmann's
legendary projects was dominated by the idea of television. While architecture is
typically embarrassed by television, preferring to act as if it never happened, Wachsmann
fully embraced it. Investigating the archives of one of the most influential designers
of the twentieth century, Wigley scrutinizes Wachsmann's design, research, and teaching,
closely reading a succession of unseen drawings, models, photographs, correspondence,
publications, syllabi, reports, and manuscripts to argue that Wachsmann is an anti-architect—a
student of some of the most influential designers of the 1920s that dedicated thirty-five
post–Second World War years to the disappearance of architecture. Wachsmann turned
architecture against itself. His hypnotic projects for a new kind of space were organized
around the thought that television liberates a different way of living together. Wachsmann
dissolved buildings into pulsating mirages that were a huge influence on the experimental
avant-gardes of the 1960s and 1970s. But Konrad Wachsmann's Television: Post-architectural
Transmissions demonstrates that this work was even more extreme than the experiments
it inspired. The book offers a forensic analysis of a career to show that Wachsmann
developed one of the most compelling manifestos of what architecture would need to
become in the age of ubiquitous electronics.
Sujet(s) : Wachsmann, Konrad (1901-1980) -- Télévision
Mouvement moderne (architecture)
Indice(s) Dewey :
720.92 (23e éd.) = Architecture - Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-3-95679-535-0
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb467798997
Notice n° :
FRBNF46779899
