Archi.Pop Mediating Architecture in Popular Culture

How have architecture and design been represented in popular culture? How do these fictional reflections feed back into and influence 'the real world'? Archi.Pop: Architecture and Design in Popular Culture offers the first contemporary critical overview of this diverse and intriguing relationship in cultural forms including television, cinema, iconic buildings and everyday interiors, music and magazines.

Bringing the study of architecture and culture firmly to the contemporary world, Archi.Pop offers a unique critical investigation into how this dynamic relationship has shaped the way we live and the way we interact with the constructed world around us.

D. Medina Lasansky teaches architectural history at Cornell University, USA. She is co-editor of Architecture and Tourism: Perception, Performance, and Place (Berg, 2004) and the author of the Renaissance Perfected: Architecture, Spectacle and Tourism in Fascist Italy (2004).

Introduction
Medina Lasansky (History of Architecture, Cornell University, USA)

1. Iain Borden (The Bartlett, University College London, UK)
The World's Most Popular Architecture: the Technology and Interior of the Automobile

2. Lawrence Chua (Art History, Hamilton College, USA)
Life in Marvelous Times: Hip-hop, housing, and <the death of modernism>

3. Denise Costanzo (Architecture, Penn State University, USA)
The Palazzo Soprano, or; McMansion as Threat

4. Gabrielle Esperdy (Architecture & Design, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
Ugly America and the Shopping Mall: A Time-Life View of the 50s & 60s

5. Evangelos Kotsjoris (Architecture, Princeton University, USA)
The "situation room" goes to the movies: the afterlife of the SAGE system in Hollywood

6. D. Medina Lasansky (History of Architecture, Cornell University, USA)
Outdoor History

7. Mark Morris (Architecture, Cornell University, USA)
Designer Doll Houses

8. Barbara Penner (The Bartlett, University College London, UK)
The Aesthetics of Waste

9. Chad Randl (History of Architecture, Cornell University, USA)
Making Sense of Shag: Carpet as Culture in the 1970s

10. Holly Wlodarczyk (Comparative Studies, University of Minnesota, USA)
As Seen On TV: The Cultural Meanings of the Leave It to Beaver House

11. Sarah Benson (St. John’s College, Annapolis, USA)
Gidget Goes Crazy: Italian Monuments and Madness in Popular Film

12. Lawrence Chua (Art History, Hamilton College, USA)
Honey, I Shrunk the Nation-State: theme parks and the making of a nationalist consciousness

13. Carlos Mare (Graffiti artist Mare 139, USA)Graffitecture - Graffiti as Architectural Language