Zoomscape Architecture in Motion and Media

Name: Zoomscape Architecture in Motion and Media
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ISBN: 9781568984414

ISBN-10: 1568984413

ISBN-13: 9781568984414

Edition: 2004

Authors: Mitchell Scwharzer

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Although a few among us are intrepid architectural tourists, visiting buildings and landscapes our cameras at the ready, most of us experience architecture through the windshield of a moving vehicle, the architectural experience reduced to a blurry and momentary drive-by. And the rest of our architectural "tourism" is through the images of cameras, movies, and television programs -- that is, through the lens of another's eye. Architectural hisotrian Mitchell Schwarzer calls this new mediated architectural experience the "zoomscape." In this thought-provoking book, he argues that the perception of architecture has been fundamentally altered by the technologies of transportation and the…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Publication date: 3/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction


Railroad


Departure and Arrival


From the Train


The Corridor


Urban Transit


Automobile


Borderlands


Streets and Strips


Expressways


Road Fever


Airplane


Takeoff and Landing


Bird's-Eye Views


Straight Down


Globalism


Photography


Front and Center


Angles of Context


Detail


The City Assembled


Film


Establishing Shot


Long Looks


Disorientation


City Symphony


Television


Channel Surfing


Setting the Sitcom


Streets of Surveillance


Illustration Credits