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• Title:Archi.pop : mediating architecture in popular culture / edited by D. Medina Lasansky.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Lasansky, D. Medina, editor.
  
• Published/Created:London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: NA2543.S6 A623 2014
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Architecture and society--United States--History--20th century.
  Architecture and society--United States--History--21st century.
  Design--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.
  Design--Social aspects--United States--History--21st century.
  Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
  Popular culture--United States--History--21st century.
  
• Description:x, 233 pages ; 26 cm
  
• Summary:"Popular culture has become one of the foremost ways for trends to emerge in contemporary life. With a myriad number of viewers, the mediums of film, television and music have an unprecedented effect on how we live and arrange the spaces in which we live and work. Archi.Pop: Architecture and Design in Popular Culture offers the first contemporary critical overview of how architecture and design are represented within a variety of mediums of popular culture. The public is introduced to canonical architecture and design through a range of mass media and as a consequence is taught to recognise desire and consumption. This volume responds to this argument, exploring the different ways architecture and design are presented, represented and reflected within mass media. How can we read the contemporary design of Suburban American through the visual aesthetic of The Sopranos? How are housing projects represented and reflected through Hip-Hop? What significance has modern car design on contemporary interior design? What is Hollywood's role in the construction of domestic space? How did Shag carpeting influence modern design to the point of total saturation? Featuring a wide range of case studies from television, film, music, domestic interiors, magazines and many more, Archi.Pop brings the study of architecture and culture firmly to the contemporary world, offering a unique critical investigation into how this dynamic relationship has shaped the way we live and the way we interact with the constructed world around us"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781472522542 (hardback)
  1472522540 (hardback)
  9781472531469 (paperback)
  1472531469 (paperback)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. One Domesticating Behavior
  1. Cultural Meanings of the Leave It to Beaver House / Holley Wlodarczyk
  2. "r;Uglying Out"r;: Shag Carpet and the Twists of Popular Taste / Chad Randl
  3. Vision and Crime: The Cineramic Architecture of John Lautner / Jon Yoder
  pt. Two Playing
  4. Dimensions of the Mass-Produced Dollhouse: Fisher-Price Versus Playmobil / Mark S. Morris
  5. Honey, I Shrunk the Nation-State: The Scales of Global History in the Thai Nationalist Theme Park / Lawrence Chua
  pt. Three Profligate Profiles
  6. Palazzo Soprano / Denise Costanzo
  7. Invitations to a Candy-Floss World / Barbara Penner
  pt. Four Cinematic Travels
  8. Place of No Return: Frank Lloyd Wright's Undomestic Ennis House in Film / Merrill Schleier
  9. Gidget and the Creature from Venus: Madness, Monsters, and Dangerous Roman Ruins in Film / Sarah Benson
  pt. Five Road Space
  10. World's Most Popular Architecture: The Technology and Interior of the Automobile / Iain Borden
  11. Ugly America and Architecture on the Highway: A Time-Life View of the 1950s and 1960s / Gabrielle Esperdy
  pt. Six Urban Critiques
  12. "r;Life in Marvelous Times"r;: Hip-hop, Housing, and Utopia / Lawrence Chua.