Archi.pop : mediating architecture in popular culture /

"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 De...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lasansky, D. Medina (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
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Table of Contents:
  • Domesticating Behavior. The Cultural Meanings of the Leave It to Beaver House / Holly Wlodarczyk
  • 'Uglying Out': Shag Carpet and the Twists of Popular Taste / Chad Randl
  • Vision and Crime: The Cineramic Architecture of John Lautner / Jon Yoder
  • Playing. Dimensions of the Mass-Produced Doll House. Fisher-Price versus Playmobil / Mark S. Morris
  • Honey, I Shrunk the Nation-State: the scales of global history in the Thai national theme park / Lawrence Chua
  • Profligate Profile. The Palazzo Soprano / Denise Costanzo
  • An Invitation to a Candy-Floss World / Barbara Penner
  • Cinematic Travels. A Place of No Return: Frank Lloyd Wright's Undomestic Ennis House in Film / Merrill Schleier
  • Gidget and the Creature from Venus: Madness, Monsters, and Dangerous Roman Ruins in Film / Sarah Benson
  • Road Space. The World's Most Popular Architecture: the Technology and Interior of the Automobile / Iain Borden
  • Ugly America & Architecture on the Highway: A Time-Life View of the 50s & 60s / Gabrielle Esperdy
  • Urban Critiques. 'Life in Marvelous Times': Hip-hop, housing, and utopia / Lawrence Chua.