[ecrea] New book: Media Houses. Architecture, Media and the Production of Centrality

> Media Houses 
> Architecture, Media, and the
> Production of Centrality 
> Eds. Staffan Ericson &
> Kristina Riegert, Södertörn University Sweden 
>   
> In much recent theory, the media are
> described as ephemeral, ubiquitous, and de-localized. Yet the activity of
> modern media can be traced to spatial centers that are tangible enough -
> some even monumental. This book offers multidisciplinary and historical
> perspectives on the buildings of some of the world's major media
> institutions. Paradoxically, as material and aesthetic manifestations of
> «mediated centers» of power, they provide sites to the siteless and
> solidity to the immaterial. The authors analyse the ways that
> architectural form and organization reflect different eras, media
> technologies, ideologies, and relations with the public in media houses
> from New York and Silicon Valley to London, Moscow, and Beijing.
>
> Contents: 
> Staffan Ericson/Kristina
> Riegert/Patrik Åker: Introduction 
> Staffan Ericson: The
> Interior of the Ubiquitous: Broadcasting House, London 
> Kristina Riegert: The End
> of the Iconic Home of Empire: Pondering the Move of the BBC World Service
> from Bush House 
> Patrik Åker: Ostankino TV
> Tower, Moscow: An Obsession with Space 
> Peter Jakobsson/Fredrik
> Stiernstedt: Googleplex and Informational Culture 
> Shannon Mattern: Edge
> Blending: Light, Crystalline Fluidity, and the Materiality of New Media
> at Gehry's IAC Headquarters 
> Sven-Olov Wallenstein:
> Looping Ideology: The CCTV Center in Beijing 
> Helena Mattsson: Real TV:
> Architecture as Social Media. 
>
> Year of Publication: 2010
>   
> New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles,
> Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2010. VIII, 217 pp., num. coloured and
> b/w ill. 
> ISBN 978-1-4331-0583-8 
> pb.

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