Megaron (Jan 2016)
Imaging Technologies, Visual Culture, and Architecture From 1962 to Today
Abstract
Since its beginnings, after caves were covered with paintings that were the extension of the mind, architecture has always been a scaled representation of the perceived and experienced earth world and universe. The aim of the present study was to determine parallel developments between imaging technologies that have made the living inner worlds in medicine seen just like the eye's extension television glasses which made it possible to watch the conquest of the Moon live and their natural extension, visual culture and the architecture, which have been made visible to distant geographies by the same technological developments. Buildings such as the TWA Flight Center, the Space Needle, Centre Georges Pompidou, AT&T, and 1111 Lincoln Road were investigated through purposive sampling in the present study. The starting point was 1962, when relevant imaging technologies came to the fore. The aforementioned buildings, along with the Tours Aillaud and Les Espaces d'Abraxas, all reflecting different architectural styles from Expressionism, International Style and Brutalism towards Postmodernism came to the fore. And, via the relevant mass media archeological site's finding context, the stratification processes of the shift from alphabet culture towards the image culture, which is synchronously transforming the architecture, thanks to the imaging technologies, are to be fixed.
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