This book explores the impact of medical discourse and diagnostic
technologies on the formation, representation, and reception of
modern architecture. It challenges the normal understanding of
modern architecture by proposing that the architecture of the early
twentieth century was shaped by the dominant medical obsession of
its time: tuberculosis and its primary diagnostic tool, the
X-ray.If architectural discourse has from its beginning associated
building and body, the body that it describes is the medical body,
reconstructed by each new theory of health. Modern architects pre-
sented their architecture as a kind of medical instrument for
protecting and enhancing the body. X-ray technology and modern
architecture were born around the same time and evolved in
parallel. While the X-ray exposed the inside of the body to the
public eye, the modern building unveiled its interior, inverting
the relationship between private and public.Colomina suggests that
if we want to talk about the state of the art in buildings, we
should look to the dominant obsessions about illness and the latest
techniques of imaging the body-and ask what effects they may have
on the way we conceive architecture.
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