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The virtual window : from Alberti to Microsoft / Anne Friedberg.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Description: xii, 357 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0262062526
  • 9780262062527
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 701 22
LOC classification:
  • B105.I47 F75 2006
Contents:
Introduction : the virtual window -- 1. The window -- Lens I : descartes's window -- 2. The frame -- Lens II : Heidegger's frame -- 3. The "age of windows" -- Lens III : Bergson's virtual -- 4. The screen -- Lens IV : Virilio's screen -- 5. The multiple -- Conclusion : the future of windows : smart glass, streaming portals, and screenless images.
Review: "In this wide-ranging book, Friedberg considers such topics as the framed view of the camera obscura, Le Corbusier's mandates for the architectural window, Eisenstein's opinions on the shape of the movie screen, and the multiple images and nested windows commonly displayed on screens today. The Virtual Window proposes a new logic of visuality, framed and virtual: an architecture not only of space but of time."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-348) and index.

Introduction : the virtual window -- 1. The window -- Lens I : descartes's window -- 2. The frame -- Lens II : Heidegger's frame -- 3. The "age of windows" -- Lens III : Bergson's virtual -- 4. The screen -- Lens IV : Virilio's screen -- 5. The multiple -- Conclusion : the future of windows : smart glass, streaming portals, and screenless images.

"In this wide-ranging book, Friedberg considers such topics as the framed view of the camera obscura, Le Corbusier's mandates for the architectural window, Eisenstein's opinions on the shape of the movie screen, and the multiple images and nested windows commonly displayed on screens today. The Virtual Window proposes a new logic of visuality, framed and virtual: an architecture not only of space but of time."--BOOK JACKET.

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