TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wigley,Mark
AU  - Hirsch,Nikolaus
AU  - Miessen,Markus
AU  - Wachsmann,Konrad
TI  - Konrad Wachsmann's television: post-architectural transmissions 
T2  - Critical spatial practice
SN  - 9783956795350
AV  - NA1088.W26 W54 2020
U1  - 724.6 
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Berlin
PB  - Sternberg Press
KW  - Wachsmann, Konrad,
KW  - Architects
KW  - Germany
KW  - Biography
KW  - Architecture
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Architecture and technology
KW  - fast
KW  - Biographies
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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