AA tutor Sam Chermayeff has contributed to a new biography of Konrad Wachsmann, titled Konrad Wachsmann’s Television, Post-architectural Transmissions by Mark Wigley, the eleventh book in the Critical Spatial Practice series edited by Nikolaus Hirsch and Markus Miessen.

'In this provocative intellectual biography, architectural historian Mark Wigley makes the surprising claim that the thinking behind modernist architect Konrad Wachsmann’s legendary projects was dominated by the idea of television. While architecture is typically embarrassed by television, preferring to act as if it never happened, Wachsmann fully embraced it. Investigating the archives of one of the most influential designers of the twentieth century, Wigley scrutinizes Wachsmann’s design, research, and teaching, closely reading a succession of unseen drawings, models, photographs, correspondence, publications, syllabi, reports, and manuscripts to argue that Wachsmann is an anti-architect—a student of some of the most influential designers of the 1920s that dedicated 35 post–Second World War years to the disappearance of architecture.'

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