Konrad Wachsmann's Television

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Mark Wigley

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Sternberg Press
04 May 2021

Architecture; Theory of architecture; Individual architects & architectural firms; Biography: general

Series: Sternberg Press / Critical Spatial Practice

A novel reading of the work of one of the most influential designers of the twentieth century.

In this provocative intellectual biography, architectural historian Mark Wigley makes the surprising claim that the thinking behind modernist architect Konrad Wachsmann's legendary projects was dominated by the idea of television. Investigating the archives of one of the most influential designers of the twentieth century, Wigley scrutinizes Wachsmann's design, research, and teaching, closely reading a succession of unseen drawings, models, photographs, correspondence, publications, syllabi, reports, and manuscripts to argue that Wachsmann is an anti-architect-a student of some of the most influential designers of the 1920s who dedicated thirty-five post-Second World War years to the disappearance of architecture.

Wachsmann turned architecture against itself. His hypnotic projects for a new kind of space were organized around the thought that television enables a different way of living together. While architecture is typically embarrassed by television, preferring to act as if it never happened, Wachsmann fully embraced it. He dissolved buildings into pulsating mirages that influenced the experimental avant-gardes of the 1960s and 1970s; but Wigley demonstrates that this work was even more extreme than the experiments it inspired. Wigley's forensic analysis of a career shows that Wachsmann developed one of the most compelling manifestos of what architecture would need to become in the age of ubiquitous electronics.

By: Mark Wigley
Imprint: Sternberg Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 152mm, Width: 108mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 306g
ISBN: 9783956795350
ISBN 10: 3956795350
Series: Sternberg Press / Critical Spatial Practice
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 04 May 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mark Wigley is Professor and Dean Emeritus at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.