Category: Reading Response

In Victor Hugo’s “This Will Kill That”, he discusses the triumph of printing over architecture, explaining how “volatile, irresistible and indestructible” [1] the printed form

Did the evolution of print kill architecture? To an extent it seems that the case for the decline of architecture and the arts can be

With the advent of technical reproduction the publication of architecture, as a medium trough which architectural ideas have been disseminated, has both conditioned our understanding

This week’s readings focused on the advent of writing and how the printing press affected architecture and vice versa. In Under the Sign of Representation

As with the readings from the past two weeks, a connecting theme in this current set is the relationship between architecture and its reproductions –

Reading Response Week 11 There were a few common themes that I found interesting in this weeks reading. First, I was struck by the topic

The readings this week – in addressing publication as architecture as well as the audience and forms of publications with their populist and moralist implications

A few week ago we discussed how the vantage point of photography, in the discourse of architecture, brought the world a little closer by allowing

Le Corbusier’s apparent dissatisfaction with photography – specifically, that kind associated with “passive, consumeristic, fetishistic” practice – seems to stem from a more fundamental dissatisfaction