Landscape of lines. Aesthetics and telecommunications. Overview collection.
MetisPresses| N° d'inventaire | 25605 |
| Format | 17 x 24 |
| Détails | 176 p., illustrated, paperback. |
| Publication | Geneva, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782940711123 |
"I believe that in the future electric wires will connect the headquarters of telephone companies in different cities, and that a man anywhere on earth will be able to communicate by speech with another in a distant place." In 1878, two years after the invention of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell imagined a future of radical transformations made possible by a dense network of telephone wires: a premonition that would soon prove true.
This book depicts the material and anonymous history of the objects that make up modern telecommunications: electricity poles, wires and cables, sockets and switches, through to ingenious devices and micro-architectures such as the theaterphone and the telephone booth. Starting with the heroic installation, towards the end of the 19th century, of infrastructures covering the earth's surface, crossing undergrounds, oceans and seas to penetrate domestic interiors, Landscape of Lines offers a reading that, through its plurality of axes, explores the multiple links and intersections that these technical "things" maintain with architecture and art. Enriched with unpublished archive images revealing a stunning imagination, this book brings an aesthetic look at ordinary objects that have forever changed the urban, rural and domestic landscape of our civilization.
"I believe that in the future electric wires will connect the headquarters of telephone companies in different cities, and that a man anywhere on earth will be able to communicate by speech with another in a distant place." In 1878, two years after the invention of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell imagined a future of radical transformations made possible by a dense network of telephone wires: a premonition that would soon prove true.
This book depicts the material and anonymous history of the objects that make up modern telecommunications: electricity poles, wires and cables, sockets and switches, through to ingenious devices and micro-architectures such as the theaterphone and the telephone booth. Starting with the heroic installation, towards the end of the 19th century, of infrastructures covering the earth's surface, crossing undergrounds, oceans and seas to penetrate domestic interiors, Landscape of Lines offers a reading that, through its plurality of axes, explores the multiple links and intersections that these technical "things" maintain with architecture and art. Enriched with unpublished archive images revealing a stunning imagination, this book brings an aesthetic look at ordinary objects that have forever changed the urban, rural and domestic landscape of our civilization.