X-Ray Architecture Colomina BeatrizPevná vazba
X-Ray Architecture Colomina BeatrizPevná vazba "A new theory of architecture is on the horizon." -Ashley Simone, BombHow our medical obsessions and the image of the body influence modern…
Specifikacia X-Ray Architecture Colomina BeatrizPevná vazba
X-Ray Architecture Colomina BeatrizPevná vazba
"A new theory of architecture is on the horizon." -Ashley Simone, BombHow our medical obsessions and the image of the body influence modern architecture. It challenges the normal understanding of modern architecture by proposing that the architecture of the early 20th century was shaped by the dominant medical obsession of its time: tuberculosis and its primary diagnostic tool, the X-ray. This book explores the impact of medical discourse and diagnostic technologies on the formation, representation and reception of modern architecture.
Modern architects presented their architecture as a kind of medical instrument for protecting and enhancing the body. If architectural discourse has from its beginning associated building and body, the body that it describes is the medical body, reconstructed by each new theory of health. X-ray technology and modern