1st Edition

This is Not Architecture Media Constructions

Edited By Kester Rattenbury Copyright 2002
    288 Pages 8 Color & 93 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    288 Pages 8 Color & 93 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    288 Pages 8 Color & 93 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    This is Not Architecture assembles architectural writers of different kinds - historians, theorists, journalists, computer game designers, technologists, film-makers and architects - to discuss the characteristics, cultures, limitations and bias of the different kinds of media, and to build up an argument as to how this complex culture of representations is constructed.

    1. Introduction: This is Not Architecture. Partial History of Virtual Reality. 2. The Revelation of Order: Perspective and Architectural Representation. 3. On the Origins of Architectural Photography. Architectural Cinematography. 4. The Revenge of Place. The Shape of Representation. 5. Iconic Pictures. 6. Think of it as Farm! 7. Diagrams: Interactive Instruments in Operation. 8. The Height of the Kick: Designing Gameplay. 9. Photo-Graph, Photo-Shop. The Reporting of Architecture.

    Biography

    Kester Rattenbury is an architectural writer and teacher. She trained as an architect before doing a PhD on the coverage of architecture in the UK national press, and then going on to work as an architectural journalist. She now works as a freelance architectural writer and reviewer, and teaches a design to architectural students. She lives and works in London.

    'This is a thought-provoking book. Much of the argument is very accessible.' - Building Design