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X-Ray Architecture

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

X-Ray Architecture

By Beatriz Colomina

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About the book

This book explores the impact of medical discourse and diagnostic technologies on the formation, representation, and reception of modern architecture. It challenges the normal understanding of modern architecture by proposing that the architecture of the early twentieth century was shaped by the dominant medical obsession of its time: tuberculosis and its primary diagnostic tool, the X-ray.If architectural discourse has from its beginning associated building and body, the body that it describes ...Show more

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ISBN

9783037784433

Publisher

Lars Muller Publishers

Published year

2018

Language

Edition

1

Original title

X-Ray Architecture

Format

Hardcover

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