In this book, Colomina primarily argues that “modern architecture only becomes modern with its engagement with the media.” She analyzes a number of interesting ways how architecture engages and is inspired by the mass media in the 1920s. Her conclusions are occasionally biased by her ideological agenda.
建筑向哲学界借完概念了以后怎么办?答案就是向新兴领域——视觉文化和媒体研究借问题。不,其实可以看出还是本雅明的延长线,但是媒体和现代性一组合进建筑话语,就成就一套方法论了。其实挺喜欢这种章回体写作的,但是最后两章组合起来就丢到Sexuality and Space论文集里面真的好么……具体的感慨是可以重构一个抛弃了后现代叙事的媒介、话语理论,还蛮新鲜的