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Faregh E, Panahi S, Lalbakhsh E, Rezaee M. Rereading the concept of architecture as media and art in the critical analysis of Walter Benjamin's theory of mechanical reproducibility. Naqshejahan 2026; 15 (4) :1-24
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1- PhD Student of Architecture, Department of Architecture, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran.
2- Department of Architecture, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran. (Corresponding Author) ,siamak.panahi@iau.ac.ir
3- Department of Architecture, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran.
4- Department of Architecture, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2- Department of Architecture, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran. (Corresponding Author) ,
3- Department of Architecture, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran.
4- Department of Architecture, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract: (185 Views)
Aims: This research is based on the undeniable impact of modern media on all aspects of human life, including architecture, and subsequently, the urgent need to study the history of media evolution and the theoretical foundations governing media, on how the media affects architecture.
Methods: The current research has benefited from Benjamin's theory of mechanical reproducibility as an accepted theory and tried with a post-qualitative approach to readout of new concepts from the placement of architecture as media and art in it. So the deep relationship between architecture and media could be explained.
Findings: Since all the media have stepped from the traditional one-way format to the new media with interactive and two-way communication, architecture has also benefited from interactive concepts. The help of other media has been obtained, which makes its access more universal and more reproducible.
Results: It seems that although the mechanical reproducibility of architecture as art has been realized with the help of the exponential growth of media in various fields, and architecture as a media and with the help of other new media has entered a new stage of its evolution, which, by looking at the foundations of media, aims to give a dynamic role in the process of creating space and providing benefits to its non-passive audience, the universalization of art, instead of liberating the audience, can also lead to a reduction in the depth of aesthetic experience and greater dominance of the capitalist system over artistic production
Methods: The current research has benefited from Benjamin's theory of mechanical reproducibility as an accepted theory and tried with a post-qualitative approach to readout of new concepts from the placement of architecture as media and art in it. So the deep relationship between architecture and media could be explained.
Findings: Since all the media have stepped from the traditional one-way format to the new media with interactive and two-way communication, architecture has also benefited from interactive concepts. The help of other media has been obtained, which makes its access more universal and more reproducible.
Results: It seems that although the mechanical reproducibility of architecture as art has been realized with the help of the exponential growth of media in various fields, and architecture as a media and with the help of other new media has entered a new stage of its evolution, which, by looking at the foundations of media, aims to give a dynamic role in the process of creating space and providing benefits to its non-passive audience, the universalization of art, instead of liberating the audience, can also lead to a reduction in the depth of aesthetic experience and greater dominance of the capitalist system over artistic production
Keywords: architecture, new media, Walter Benjamin, the work of art, new technologies, architectural theories, contemporary architecture.
Article Type: Original Research |
Subject:
Highperformance Architecture
Received: 2025/01/2 | Accepted: 2024/04/14 | Published: 2025/12/22
Received: 2025/01/2 | Accepted: 2024/04/14 | Published: 2025/12/22
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