THE “ORDER OF THINGS"IN MEDIA CUBE: TRANSPARENCY AS A DESIGN TOOL IN NTV NEWS STUDIO

Abstract

In this study, the design of NTV News Studio, which is qualified as a revolution with respect to news studios is analyzed as architectural. The new news studio of NTV brings a different and innovative approach to traditional studio designs. The purpose of this study is to determine the innovations brought by NTV News Studio and probing the reasons for its being qualified as a "revolution". In this context, employing a methodology benefiting from the interpretations by Michel Foucault in his book “Order of Things” about how Diego Velazquez‘s painting Las Meninas has changed a conventional order, the order of NTV News Studio has been analyzed.

Keywords

• NTV News Studio,News Cube,Transparency,Order of Things,Las Meninas

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