ABSTRACT
The public realm of the street was no longer a soundproofed backdrop demonstrating currency and proximity, and the studio was no longer a hermetically sealed tourist attraction. The codes of mediated space are well established, largely because they depend on recognition by the widest possible audience. The discipline of architecture has largely been excluded from the production of mediated space, one which has been more effectively served by other specialist fields, but it remains the best placed discipline from which to name and critique the spatial codes and mechanisms of reproduction that these mediated spaces employ. The complete erasure or redaction of any identifying features in the mediated space of Cape Town in advertisements for the northern hemisphere, meanwhile, represents a new form of postcolonial urban relations. Chroma-key studios that can be constructed within the limited headroom of a typical office can create spaces with depth and breadth that far exceed the concrete dimensions of the studio.
