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The Architecture of the Wire: Infrastructures of Telecommunication

The Architecture of the Wire: Infrastructures of Telecommunication

Daro, Carlotta
Hubert, Christian

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Technology & EngineeringArchitecture History

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ISBN10: 0262551632
ISBN13: 9780262551632
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Apr 22 2025
Pages: 272
Language: English
A visually inspiring architectural history of the wire and its representations that illuminates the relationship between telecommunications, technology, and architecture.

The Architecture of the Wire explores the development of telecommunications infrastructure and its impact on the architectural and urban culture of the modern age--from poles, wires, and cables, to micro-architectures, such as the théâtrophone and the telephone booth. Starting with the intrepid worldwide infrastructures of the late nineteenth century, Carlotta Darò proposes a new history that explores the multiple links and crossroads of such technical things with architecture and art.

Based on extensive research of North American company archives, and French institutional ones, and drawing on secondary literature in art and architectural history, media studies, and the history of technology, Darò examines the aesthetic implications of material objects that have forever changed our urban, rural, and domestic environments.

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