How have architecture and design been represented in popular culture? How do these fictional reflections feed back into and influence ‘the real world’? Archi.Pop: Architecture and Design in Popular Culture offers the first contemporary critical overview of this diverse and intriguing relationship in cultural forms including television, cinema, iconic buildings and everyday interiors, music and magazines.

Bringing the study of architecture and culture firmly to the contemporary world, Archi.Pop offers a unique critical investigation into how this dynamic relationship has shaped the way we live and the way we interact with the constructed world around us.

[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. * Buildings & Landscapes *
This adventurous book brings together the subjects of architectural history and popular culture through a novel set of case studies. The interdisciplinary approach foregrounds the popular representation and understanding of modern architecture and interiors. From the Playboy Club to the car interior, the book is engaging and critically engaged. -- Anne Massey, Middlesex University, UK
This indispensable collection of lively essays explores a rich vein of overlooked material—TV domesticity, shag carpet, Hollywood sets, plastic toys, magazine pictures, amusement parks, hip hop—that re-examines modern architecture and design. Smart, readable, and engaging, the book extends Reyner Banham's project into the twenty-first century. -- Amy F. Ogata, Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, USA

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).