Mediated Messages : Periodicals, Exhibitions and the Shaping of Postmodern Architecture

"Mediated Messages presents a collection of original writing exploring the role played by the media in the development of postmodern architecture in the 1970s and 80s. The book's twelve chapters and case-studies examine a range of contemporary periodicals and exhibitions to explore their role in the postmodern. This focus on mediation as a key feature of architectural post-modernism, and the recognition that post-modernism grew out of developments in the media, opens up the possibility of an important new account of post-modernism distinct from existing narratives. Accompanied by a contextualizing introduction, the essays are arranged across four thematic sections (covering: images; international postmodernisms; high and low culture; and postmodern architects as theorists) and present a range of case-studies with a genuinely international scope. Altogether, this work makes a substantial contribution to the historical account of architectural postmodernism, and will be of great interest to researchers in postmodernism as well as those examining the role of the media in architectural history" -- Publicaciones Arquitectura y Arte Cover Half-title Title Copyright Contents List of Figures Preface List of Contributors Acknowledgements Postmodern Architecture and the Media: An Introduction Part I: Postmodern Architecture’s Pursuit of a New Spatial and Visual Culture: Architecture as Image Versus Image as Architecture 1. Bau Magazine and the Architecture of Media (1965–1970) 2. Serial Postmodernity: Architectural Association Publications in the 1980s 3. ‘I Decline to be a Missionary’: Late-Modern Mirrors and Transformations in Modern Architecture Part II: International Postmodernisms: Micro-narratives and their Contribution to Architecture 4. Reima Pietilä’s (Postmodern) Morphologies 5. Issues of Realism: Archithese, Postmodernism and Swiss Architecture, 1971–1986 6. Alessandro Mendini, Domus and the Postmodern Vision (1979–1985) Part III: Postmodern Architects as Thinkers: Bridging Theory and Practice 7. Transition to ‘Discourse’: Architecture Theory in Postmodern Australia 8. Charles Moore’s Perspecta Essays: Towards Postmodern Eclecticism 9. The Alibi of Style: Reading Classicism in Architectural Design Magazine (1979–1982) 10. Postmodern Architects as Theorists: The Case of the Essay Collection (1988–1998) Part IV: Postmodern Architecture and the Institution: Between the Elite and the Public 11. Institutionalizing Postmodernism: Reconceiving the Journal and the Exhibition at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in 1976 12. Image, Medium, Artefact: Heinrich Klotz and the Postmodern Architecture Museum Index "Mediated Messages presents a collection of original writing exploring the role played by the media in the development of postmodern architecture in the 1970s and 80s. The book's twelve chapters and case-studies examine a range of contemporary periodicals and exhibitions to explore their role in the postmodern. This focus on mediation as a key feature of architectural post-modernism, and the recognition that post-modernism grew out of developments in the media, opens up the possibility of an important new account of post-modernism distinct from existing narratives. Accompanied by a contextualizing introduction, the essays are arranged across four thematic sections (covering: images; international postmodernisms; high and low culture; and postmodern architects as theorists) and present a range of case-studies with a genuinely international scope. Altogether, this work makes a substantial contribution to the historical account of architectural postmodernism, and will be of great interest to researchers in postmodernism as well as those examining the role of the media in architectural history."--Bloomsbury Publishing