Konrad Wachsmann's television : post-architectural transmissions / Mark Wigley ; Nikolaus Hirsch & Markus Miessen (eds.).

Main entry:

Wigley, Mark, author.

Title & Author:

Konrad Wachsmann's television : post-architectural transmissions / Mark Wigley ; Nikolaus Hirsch & Markus Miessen (eds.).

Publication:

Berlin : Sternberg Press, [2020]
©2020

Description:

397 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits ; 15 cm

Series:

Critical spatial practice ; 11

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Gleaming Screens -- Extreme Horizontals -- Extra-Human Hospitality -- Architecture Machines -- Twisted Circuits -- Blackboard Forestry -- Signature Lure -- Electronic Tables -- Building Television -- Televisual Politics -- Prime-Time Building -- Programming Dissent -- Epilogue.

Summary:

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.00Wachsmann 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.

ISBN:

3956795350
9783956795350

Subject:

Wachsmann, Konrad, 1901-1980.
Architects Germany Biography.
Architecture Germany History 20th century.
Architecture and technology Germany History 20th century.
Architectes Allemagne Biographies.
Architecture et technologie Allemagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Architects
Architecture
Architecture and technology
Germany

Form/genre:

Biographies
History

Added entries:

Hirsch, Nikolaus, editor.
Miessen, Markus, editor.
Wachsmann, Konrad, 1901-1980. Works. Selections.
Hirsch, Nikolaus editor.
Miessen, Markus editor.
Critical spatial practice ; 11.

Post-architectural transmissions

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 308878
Call No.: BIB 254198
Status: Available

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