The Rise of the ‘Technocelebrity’. The Politics of Social Expertise in the Public Careers of Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius KU Leuven
The project combines expertise from modern history, history of architecture and media history to explore the relationship between experts and celebrity in the 20th century through the cases of two exemplary architects, Le Corbusier and Gropius. The project assumes as TCs they turned into social and political key figures through bundling strands of discourse that had previously not been connected and that the media and the public played an ...