Media Houses

In much recent theory, the media are described as ephemeral, ubiquitous, and de-localised. Yet the activity of modern media can be traced to spatial centres that are tangible enough - some even monumental. This book offers multidisciplinary and historical perspectives on the buildings of some of the world's major media institutions. Paradoxically, as material and aesthetic manifestations of "mediated centres" of power, they provide sites to the sitelessness and solidity to the immaterial. The authors analyse the ways that architectural form and organisation reflect different eras, media technologies, ideologies, and relations with the public in media houses from New York and Silicon Valley to London, Moscow, and Beijing.