Graham Cairns: 3 books
The Architecture of the Screen
Essays in Cinematographic Space
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
With the birth of film came the birth of a revolutionary visual language. This new, unique vocabulary - the cut, the fade, the dissolve, the pan, and the new idea of movement - gave not only artists but also architects a completely new way to think about and describe the visual. The Architecture...
Reflections on Architecture, Society and Politics
Social and Cultural Tectonics in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Reflections on Architecture, Society and Politics brings together a series of thirteen interview-articles by Graham Cairns in collaboration with some of the most prominent polemic thinkers and critical practitioners from the fields of architecture and the social sciences, including Noam Chomsky,...
Reification and Representation
Architecture in the Politico-Media-Complex
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
The relationship between politics and the public relations industry is controversial and, at times, polemic. However, one component of this relationship that has yet to be investigated is the role of architecture. Arguing for a fundamental reconfiguration of our understanding of ‘political architecture’,...