The Architecture of Phantasmagoria - 9781138900776

Taylor & Francis

The Architecture of PhantasmagoriaSpecters of the City\nAuthor(s): Libero Andreotti, Nadir Lahiji\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138900776, 978-1138900776\nSynopsis\nIn a time of mass-mediated modernity, the city becomes, almost by definition, a constitutively mediated city. Today, more than ever before, the omnipresence of media in every sphere of culture is creating a new urban ontology, saturating, fracturing, and exacerbating the manifold experience of city life. The authors describe this condition as one of 'hyper-mediation' a qualitatively new phase in the citys historical evolution. The concept of phantasmagoria has pride of place in their study; using it as an all-embracing explanatory framework, they explore its meanings as a critical category to understand the culture, and the architecture, of the contemporary city.\n\nAndreotti and Lahiji argue that any account of architecture that does not include .