X-Ray architecture /
By: Colomina, Beatriz [author.].
Publisher: Zürich : Lars Müller Publishers, [2019]Description: 199 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 20 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9783037784433; 9783037784433:; 3037784431.Subject(s): Architecture and society | Architecture -- Health aspects | Architecture -- Psychological aspects | X-rays | Architecture, Modern -- 20th century | Architecture and technology | Social Medicine | Architecture -- history | Privacy | Personal Space | Tuberculosis, Pulmonary -- history | History, 20th CenturyDDC classification: 720.103Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 720.103 COL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0082772 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Health and architecture : from Vitruvius to Sick Building Syndrome -- Tuberculosis -- X-ray intimacy -- Blurred visions -- Hyperpublic : an afterword.
This text 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.