Both instrumental technique and potentially radical political critique, montage occupies a crucial place within architectural culture. From August Schmarsow to Manfredo Tafuri, Le Corbusier to Colin Rowe, a wide array of architects, theorists, and historians have used montage while seeking to comprehend and reshape modern urban space. El Lissitzky's 1924–25 Wolkenbügel (Cloud Hanger) is a paradigmatic example (Figure 1). The term montage refers generally to a technique involving the synthetic spatial and temporal arrangement of image fragments, whether from still photography or moving pictures. It is difficult to pin down, however: while constructed primarily from photographic fragments, montage imbricates multiple media, as evidenced by its centrality...
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September 2019
Book Review|
September 01 2019
Review: Montage and the Metropolis: Architecture, Modernity and the Representation of Space, by Martino Stierli
Martino Stierli
Montage and the Metropolis: Architecture, Modernity, and the Representation of Space
New Haven, Conn.
: Yale University Press
, 2018
, 320 pp., 72 color and 85 b/w illus. $60 (cloth), ISBN 9780300221312
Peter Sealy
Peter Sealy
University of Toronto
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Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2019) 78 (3): 364–367.
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Peter Sealy; Review: Montage and the Metropolis: Architecture, Modernity and the Representation of Space, by Martino Stierli. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 September 2019; 78 (3): 364–367. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2019.78.3.364
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