Archi.Pop

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

[Archi.Pop] does much more than rehearse old critiques. Rather, [it] ... attempts to address the ways in which popular culture intersects with architectural production ... In doing so, the book offers more than a simple corrective to scholarship focused on the "known designer" ... Many of the pleasures of [Archi.Pop] ... come from its exploration of particular, often obscure, histories of pop culture.

• Introduction, D. Medina Lasansky, History of Architecture, Cornell University, USADomesticating Behavior1. The Cultural Meanings of the Leave It to Beaver House, Holly Wlodarczyk, Comparative Studies, University of Minnesota, USA2. ‘Uglying Out’: Shag Carpet and the Twists of Popular Taste, Chad Randl, History of Architecture, Cornell University, USA3. Vision and Crime: The Cineramic Architecture of John Lautner, Jon Yoder, Kent State University, USAPlaying4. Dimensions of the Mass-Produced Doll House. Fisher-Price versus Playmobil, Mark S. Morris, Architecture, Cornell University, USA5. Honey, I Shrunk the Nation-State: the scales of global history in the Thai national theme park, Lawrence Chua, Art History, Hamilton College, USAProfligate Profiles6. The Palazzo Soprano, Denise Costanzo, Architecture, Penn State University, USA7. An Invitation to a Candy-Floss World, Barbara Penner, The Bartlett, University College London, UKCinematic Travels8. A Place of No Return: Frank Lloyd Wright's Undomestic Ennis House in Film, Merrill Schleier, University of the Pacific, USA9. Gidget and the Creature from Venus: Madness, Monsters, and Dangerous Roman Ruins in Film, Sarah Benson, St. John’s College, Annapolis, USARoad Space10. The World's Most Popular Architecture: the Technology and Interior of the Automobile, Iain Borden, The Bartlett, University College London, UK11. Ugly America and Architecture on the Highway: A Time-Life View of the 50s & 60s, Gabrielle Esperdy, Architecture & Design, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USAUrban Critiques12. Life in Marvelous Times: Hip-hop, housing, and utopia, Lawrence Chua, Art History, Hamilton College, USA