Reification and Representation by Graham Cairns

Reification and Representation by Graham Cairns

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The book investigates how images of architecture are used in UK and US election campaigns as advertising backdrops, sets for photo shoots, metaphors in policy arguments, and how this has silently, but fundamentally, influenced built form through the ages.

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Reification and Representation by Graham Cairns

The book investigates how images of architecture are used in UK and US election campaigns as advertising backdrops, sets for photo shoots, metaphors in policy arguments, and how this has silently, but fundamentally, influenced built form through the ages.

Graham Cairns is the author and editor of multiple books and articles on architecture as both a form of visual culture and a socio-political construct. He has held positions at universities in Spain, the UK, Mexico, the Gambia, South Africa and the US. He has worked in architectural studios in London and Hong Kong and founded the performing arts organisation, Hybrid Artworks in the 1990s. He is currently Chair of Architecture at Miami University, Ohio, Honorary Senior Research Associate at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, and Director of the academic research organisation AMPS and its scholarly journal Architecture_MPS.

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ISBN 13 9780367532253
ISBN 10 0367532255
Titre Reification and Representation
Auteur Graham Cairns
État Non disponible
Type de reliure Paperback
Éditeur Routledge
Année de publication 2020-04-28
Nombre de pages 216
Note de couverture La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier.
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