Mute Icons
Mute Icons ? and Other Dichotomies on the Real in Architecture
by Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich with Constance Vale
Actar Publishers, July 2021
Hardcover | 6-1/2 x 9-1/4 inches | 335 pages | English | ISBN: 9781945150869 | $49.95
PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:
Interrogating historical, contemporary, and ? more importantly? speculative images, Mute Icons & Other Dichotomies of the Real in Architecture aims to construct a viable alternative to the icon?s cliché and exhausted form of communication, positing one that is decidedly introverted and withdrawn. Developing a language and a sensibility for discovering simultaneous, contradictory, and even unexpected readings of architectural form, Marcelo Spina & Georgina Huljich / PATTERNS?s new book Mute Icons, aims to carve out a niche in contemporary culture and history by suggesting that far from being a crowd-pleaser, architecture can persist within society as a constructive cultural and social irritant. No longer concerned with narrative excesses or with the ?shock and awe? of sensation making; the mute icon becomes intriguing in its deceptive indifference towards context, perplexing in its unmitigated apathy towards the body. Object and building, absolute and unstable, anticipated and strange, manifest and withdrawn, such is the dichotomy of mute icons. Dwelling in the paradox between silence and sign and aiming to debunk a false dichotomy between critical discourse, a pursuit of formal novelty and the att...
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