Archi.Pop [Elektronisk resurs] Mediating Architecture in Popular Culture. Medina D. Lasansky.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014Description: 249 p. 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781472522542
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Archi.Pop : Mediating Architecture in Popular CultureDDC classification:
  • 720.9730904 L384 2014
LOC classification:
  • NA2543.S6 .L384 2014
Other classification:
  • Ic-qa
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Contents:
Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Contributors; Introduction1 D. Medina Lasansky; Domesticating behavior; Playing; Profligate profiles; Cinematic travels; Road space; Urban critiques; Conclusion; Note; PART ONE Domesticating Behavior; Chapter 1 The Cultural Meanings of the Leave It to Beaver House Holley Wlodarczyk; Chapter 2 "Uglying Out": Shag Carpet and the Twists of Popular Taste Chad Randl; A brief history of shag carpet; Natural shag; Shag and the body; Shag's downfall (and reappearance); Notes
Chapter 3 Vision and Crime: The Cineramic Architecture of John Lautner Jon YoderNotes; PART TWO Playing; Chapter 4 Dimensions of the Mass-Produced Dollhouse: Fisher-Price Versus Playmobil Mark S. Morris; Fisher-Price; Playmobil; All choked up; Narratives; Gender; Architectural conclusions; Chapter 5 Honey, I Shrunk the Nation-State: The Scales of Global History in the Thai Nationalist Theme Park Lawrence Chua; History and cosmology; The pleasure garden and nature; Human zoos, typology, race, and art history; Fascist spectacle and popular culture; Boundaries and border disputes
PART THREE Profligate ProfilesChapter 6 The Palazzo Soprano Denise Costanzo; Notes; Chapter 7 Invitations to a Candy-Floss World Barbara Penner; Banham, pop culture, architecture and architects; 45 Park Lane; The Bunnies take Blighty; Pop after-life; PART FOUR Cinematic Travels; Chapter 8 A Place of No Return: Frank Lloyd Wright's Undomestic Ennis House in Film1 Merrill Schleier; Archaeology and modernity; Female: Primitive excess and the modern; House on the Haunted Hill: Perverse predator; Blade Runner: Time traveler; Conclusion; Note
Chapter 9 Gidget and the Creature from Venus: Madness, Monsters, and Dangerous Roman Ruins in Film Sarah BensonThe crushing weight of history; Gidget goes crazy; "Fiddling with history"; "That old devil Italian moon"; Stendhal Syndrome and popular culture; Girls transfigured by Italy; Cinematic ruins; Notes; PART FIVE Road Space; Chapter 10 The World's Most Popular Architecture: The Technology and Interior of the Automobile Iain Borden; Automobile technology; Controlling devices; Communication networks; Distributed interiors
Chapter 11 Ugly America and Architecture on the Highway: A Time-Life View of the 1950s and 1960s Gabrielle EsperdyPART SIX Urban Critiques; Chapter 12 "Life in Marvelous Times": Hip-hop, Housing, and Utopia1 Lawrence Chua; "A beautiful turbine running in the midst of human conversations": Hip-hop and the International Style; From the Ecstasy Garage to Fort Apache: Montage and the image of the city; Flipping the script: Utopian critiques of housing; Note; Bibliography; Index
Summary: How have architecture and design been represented in popular culture? How do these fictional reflections feed back into and influence ''the real world''? Archi.Pop: Architecture and Design in Popular Culture offers the first contemporary critical overview of this diverse and intriguing relationship in cultural forms including television, cinema, iconic buildings and everyday interiors, music and magazines. Bringing the study of architecture and culture firmly to the contemporary world, Archi.Pop offers a unique critical investigation into how this dynamic relationship has shaped the way we l.
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Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Contributors; Introduction1 D. Medina Lasansky; Domesticating behavior; Playing; Profligate profiles; Cinematic travels; Road space; Urban critiques; Conclusion; Note; PART ONE Domesticating Behavior; Chapter 1 The Cultural Meanings of the Leave It to Beaver House Holley Wlodarczyk; Chapter 2 "Uglying Out": Shag Carpet and the Twists of Popular Taste Chad Randl; A brief history of shag carpet; Natural shag; Shag and the body; Shag's downfall (and reappearance); Notes

Chapter 3 Vision and Crime: The Cineramic Architecture of John Lautner Jon YoderNotes; PART TWO Playing; Chapter 4 Dimensions of the Mass-Produced Dollhouse: Fisher-Price Versus Playmobil Mark S. Morris; Fisher-Price; Playmobil; All choked up; Narratives; Gender; Architectural conclusions; Chapter 5 Honey, I Shrunk the Nation-State: The Scales of Global History in the Thai Nationalist Theme Park Lawrence Chua; History and cosmology; The pleasure garden and nature; Human zoos, typology, race, and art history; Fascist spectacle and popular culture; Boundaries and border disputes

PART THREE Profligate ProfilesChapter 6 The Palazzo Soprano Denise Costanzo; Notes; Chapter 7 Invitations to a Candy-Floss World Barbara Penner; Banham, pop culture, architecture and architects; 45 Park Lane; The Bunnies take Blighty; Pop after-life; PART FOUR Cinematic Travels; Chapter 8 A Place of No Return: Frank Lloyd Wright's Undomestic Ennis House in Film1 Merrill Schleier; Archaeology and modernity; Female: Primitive excess and the modern; House on the Haunted Hill: Perverse predator; Blade Runner: Time traveler; Conclusion; Note

Chapter 9 Gidget and the Creature from Venus: Madness, Monsters, and Dangerous Roman Ruins in Film Sarah BensonThe crushing weight of history; Gidget goes crazy; "Fiddling with history"; "That old devil Italian moon"; Stendhal Syndrome and popular culture; Girls transfigured by Italy; Cinematic ruins; Notes; PART FIVE Road Space; Chapter 10 The World's Most Popular Architecture: The Technology and Interior of the Automobile Iain Borden; Automobile technology; Controlling devices; Communication networks; Distributed interiors

Chapter 11 Ugly America and Architecture on the Highway: A Time-Life View of the 1950s and 1960s Gabrielle EsperdyPART SIX Urban Critiques; Chapter 12 "Life in Marvelous Times": Hip-hop, Housing, and Utopia1 Lawrence Chua; "A beautiful turbine running in the midst of human conversations": Hip-hop and the International Style; From the Ecstasy Garage to Fort Apache: Montage and the image of the city; Flipping the script: Utopian critiques of housing; Note; Bibliography; Index

How have architecture and design been represented in popular culture? How do these fictional reflections feed back into and influence ''the real world''? Archi.Pop: Architecture and Design in Popular Culture offers the first contemporary critical overview of this diverse and intriguing relationship in cultural forms including television, cinema, iconic buildings and everyday interiors, music and magazines. Bringing the study of architecture and culture firmly to the contemporary world, Archi.Pop offers a unique critical investigation into how this dynamic relationship has shaped the way we l.

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