Book Description
In this short, intentionally polemical book, Neil Leach draws on the ideas of philosophers and cultural theorists
such as Walter Benjamin and Jean Baudrillard to develop a novel and highly incisive critique of the consequences
of the growing preoccupation with images and image-making in contemporary architectural culture.
The problem with this preoccupation, Leach argues, is that it can induce a sort of numbness, as the saturation
of images floods the senses and obscures deeper concerns. This problem is particularly acute for a discipline such
as architecture, which relies heavily on visual representation. As a result, architects can become anaesthetized
from the social and political realities of everyday life. In the intoxicating world of the image, the aesthetics
of architecture threaten to become the anaesthetics of architecture. In this culture of aesthetic consumption,
this "culture of the cocktail," meaningful discourse gives way to strategies of seduction, and architectural
design is reduced to the superficial play of empty, seductive forms.
The Anaesthetics of Architecture
The Anaesthetics of Architecture,Neil Leach,The MIT Press,0262621266,Architecture,Criticism,Philosophy,Philosophy Of Architecture,Architecture / General
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