Andreotti and Lahiji argue that any account of architecture that does not include understanding the role and function of media and its impact on the city in the present âtele-technological-capitalistâ society is fundamentally flawed and incomplete. Their approach moves from Walter Benjamin, through the concepts of phantasmagoria and of media â as theorized also by Theodor Adorno, Siegfried Kracauer, and a new generation of contemporary critics â towards a new socio-critical and aesthetic analysis of the mediated space of the contemporary city.
Libero Andreotti is a Professor of Architecture at Georgia Tech, USA.
Nadir Lahiji is an Adjunct Faculty at the University of Canberra, Australia.