Martin, Reinhold

Bio Sketch

Reinhold Martin is an architectural historian and theorist (Columbia University, Director of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center), working on postmodernism, media/image, and the political economy of architecture, including Utopia's Ghost and The Organizational Complex.

Key Works

• "Architecture's Image Problem: Have We Ever Been Postmodern?" (2006, Grey Room).
• Utopia's Ghost: Architecture and Postmodernism, Again (2010); The Organizational Complex (2003).

Key Concepts

Concepts associated with this author that have pages in this wiki:

• Iconic Architecture
• Critical Architecture
• Ideology

Relevance to Geoffrey's Research

Martin matters to Geoffrey's postmodernism & critique and semiotics & representation areas: his "image problem" essay — showing that postmodern architecture "builds authentic images" and that Jencks's ecology naturalizes consumerist variety — frames the contemporary iconic/image economy and the critical-vs-projective debate.

Source Support

Source notes in this wiki drawn from this author's work:

• Architecture's Image Problem: Have We Ever Been Postmodern?
• The Future Is Hairy