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020 ^a9783037784433 |
050 04 ^aNA2543.S6^bC659 2019 |
100 1 ^aColomina, Beatriz,^eauthor. |
245 10 ^aX-Ray architecture /^cBeatriz Colomina |
260 1 ^aZürich :^bLars Müller Publishers,^c[2019] |
300 ^a199 pages :^billustrations (some color), portraits ;^c20cm |
504 ^aIncludes bibliographical references and index |
520 8 ^aX-Ray Architecture explores the enormous impact of medical discourse and imaging technologies on the formation, representation and reception of twentieth-century architecture. It challenges the normal understanding of modern architecture by proposing that it was shaped by thedominant medical obsession of its time: tuberculosis and its primary diagnostic tool, the X-ray. Modern architecture and the X-ray were born around the same time and evolved in parallel. While the X-ray exposed the inside of the body to the public eye, the modern building unveiled its interior, dramatically inverting the relationship between private and public. Architects presented their buildings as a kind of medical instrument for protecting and enhancing the body and psyche. Beatriz Colomina traces the psychopathologies of twentieth-centuryarchitecture--from the trauma of tuberculosis to more recent disorders such as burn-out syndrome and ADHD--and the huge transformations of privacy and publicity instigated by diagnostic tools from X-Rays to MRIs and beyond. She suggests that if we want to talk about the state of architecture today, we should look to the dominant obsessions with illness and the latest techniquesof imaging the body--and ask what effects they have on theway we conceive architecture. --Publisher^'s website |
650 0 ^aArchitecture and society. |
650 0 ^aArchitecture^xHealth aspects |
650 0 ^aArchitecture^xPsychological aspects. |
650 0 ^aX-rays. |
650 0 ^aArchitecture, Modern^y20th century. |
650 0 ^aArchitecture and technology. |
650 12 ^aSocial Medicine. |
650 22 ^aArchitecture^xhistory. |
650 22 ^aPersonal Space. |
650 22 ^aTuberculosis, Pulmonary^xhistory. |
650 22 ^aHistory, 20th Century. |
999 ^aปวีนา ภู่ทอง |