Colomina, Beatriz author. Avilés, Pep author. Santa Lucia, Andrew author. The Architect's Newspaper publisher. software, multimedia |d| urbanNext August 10, 2017 monographic eng

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782 words. One thing is certain about Beatriz Colomina and Pep Aviles’s Playboy Architecture, 1953–1979: It is an evidentiary display proving that architecture and media are complicit partners in shaping society’s view of itself. Born out of research within the Ph.D. program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University’s School of Architecture, Playboy Architecture is an exhaustive index of the ways magazines, architecture, design, furniture, fashion, and sex influence Western society. From the pages of Playboy, one could dream of a glossy packaged life. However, the role of the architect in this context has never been clearer: a precise purveyor of taste, a consummate expert on lifestyles, and a key to liberation—sexual and/or otherwise. Andrew Santa Lucia, Beatriz Colomina, Essay, expanding design practices, High Density, Pep Avilés, Technology and fabrication, The Architect’s Newspaper Architect’s role, Architecture, Architecture&design, Contemporary design, Curatorial, Design, Design guidelines, Essay, Media, Modernity, Multiscalarity, Playboy, Reviews, Scales, Timeless Model Interview by Areti Markopoulou at Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia - IaaC -, Barcelona, October 2015. Architecture Society Culture City 2575-5374 https://urbannext.net/modern-design-pleasure-and-media-blur-at-playboy-architecture-1953-1979/ https://urbannext.net/modern-design-pleasure-and-media-blur-at-playboy-architecture-1953-1979/ ES-BaAUN 221102 20230109071804.0 eng