Archi.pop : mediating architecture in popular culture /: mediating architecture in popular culture. (2014 copyright 2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by D. Medina Lasansky.
• Other Names: Lasansky, D. Medina editor of compilation.
• 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.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (248 pages)
• Subjects: 720.1030973; Architecture -- Criticism; Architecture and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Architecture and society -- United States -- History -- 21st century; Design -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Design -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 21st century; Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 21st century; ARCHITECTURE / Criticism; ART / Popular Culture; Architecture
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781472526694; 1472526694
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