March 17, 2026
|9780822968122|An Architectural History of Television|All Eyes on Space examines television as a form of modern architecture—and how its material conditions have shaped contemporary ideas of space, place, and distance. Analog television was more than a novel way of transmitting images and sounds for commercial entertainment; it brought with it new ways of producing and perceiving space itself. With this innovative study, Samuel Dodd explores the history of television’s physical architecture, attributing its technological momentum to modern design and construction. As Dodd explains, television’s delivery of easy and endless imagery was only possible because of a concerted building boom, starting in…