Architecture and the Image at the Turn of the 21st Century: After Visibility (Routledge Research in Architecture)

This book examines architecture, image, and media relationships as productive for architecture and architectural discourses.By arguing that the relationships between architecture and media cannot be dismissed via linear criticism of architecture and media or image, these relations are instead seen as a part of a sphere (a mediasphere) of complex relationships.In lieu of anything like a consensus on the contemporary condition of architecture (referring to the late twentieth and the twenty-first centuries), the starting point of this book is that the relationships between architecture, media, and images continue to multiply, owing to continuous technological advancements. Contemporary architecture considered in this book is related to the selected circumstances of high visibility, where architectural images are propelled into visibility and conflated with non-architectural images.This takes architecture outside of architectural-only discourse and into the public realm.By granting higher