Book Launch: The Semiotics of Architecture in Video Games – with Professor Gabriele Aroni & Professor Ferenc Hörcher
Book Launch: The Semiotics of Architecture in Video Games (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022) – with Professor Gabriele Aroni & Professor Ferenc Hörcher
Video games are now the most popular medium on the planet, and billions of people inhabit virtual worlds daily.
At the book launch organized by Scruton Hub, the following topics will be discussed:
How is architecture represented in video games?
And what is their relationship to traditional art as well as modern culture?
Virtual worlds are extremely varied, and they can be both a representation of the real world and an interpretation of its possibilities. This book investigates the aesthetic aspects of the buildings, cities, and landscapes in which gamers play out their roles and how artists and game designers created them.
Biography of the author:
Dr. Gabriele Aroni is Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK. An architectural historian trained in Florence (Italy) who specialized in video games in Oxford (UK), and Toronto (Canada), he has taught architecture and art at British, Chinese, and Canadian universities for over ten years. His publications space from the study of the architectural orders in early Renaissance architecture to semiotics and copyright law.
Participants:
️Dr. Gabriele Aroni, Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK, architectural historian
️Dr. Ferenc Hörcher, political philosopher, historian of political ideas, aesthete, literary critic, head of the Research Institute for Politics and State Theory
⏰ Date: April 07, 2025, 18:00
Address: Scruton Salon, Andrassy Street 6., Budapest 1061 (1. floor, doorbell 3)
// The event is free of charge, but due to the limited number of participants, please register in advance! Seats are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
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