Listening to Buildings

Modern architecture’s relationship with mass media has often been framed as purely visual, dominated by the apparatus of photography and glossy magazines. Ines Weizman expands this view, turning our attention to the interplay between the visual and the aural in architecture’s representation. Through...

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Main Author: Ines Weizman
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Published: Ediciones ARQ 2024-12-01
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description Modern architecture’s relationship with mass media has often been framed as purely visual, dominated by the apparatus of photography and glossy magazines. Ines Weizman expands this view, turning our attention to the interplay between the visual and the aural in architecture’s representation. Through Heinz Emigholz’s films and Adolf Loos’s sensitivity to acoustics -heightened by his hearing loss- Weizman invites us to experience buildings as both seen and heard. In this expanded media framework, architecture’s materiality, like Michelangelo’s stone, is not a static object for documentation but a vessel to be activated, resonating with layers of political, cultural, and social histories.
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spelling doaj-art-1a8b028827da4e5e93e270e1710e2d432025-08-20T01:54:07ZengEdiciones ARQARQ0716-08520717-69962024-12-01118823http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-69962024000300008Listening to Buildings Ines Weizman0Professor of History and Theory of Architecture, School of Architecture, Royal College of Art (RCA). London, UKModern architecture’s relationship with mass media has often been framed as purely visual, dominated by the apparatus of photography and glossy magazines. Ines Weizman expands this view, turning our attention to the interplay between the visual and the aural in architecture’s representation. Through Heinz Emigholz’s films and Adolf Loos’s sensitivity to acoustics -heightened by his hearing loss- Weizman invites us to experience buildings as both seen and heard. In this expanded media framework, architecture’s materiality, like Michelangelo’s stone, is not a static object for documentation but a vessel to be activated, resonating with layers of political, cultural, and social histories.filmarchitecturerepresentationhistorical narrativesdocumentariescollectivity + new mediaarq
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