Gächter, YvonneOrtner, HeikeSchwarz, ClaudiaWiesinger, AndreasSchnell, Angelika2023-08-222023-08-222008https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/21009Usually the architecture of a sports stadium is defined by the formal and material construction of the stands and the way they are arranged around the field. Ever since the erection of the Roman Colosseum, the architecture of this building type has organized the sports meeting to perfection. However, today’s presence of television cameras – especially at a football competition – superimposes this system through another space-time structure that both competes and emphasizes the “old” structure formerly known as architecture. Since the broadcasting companies not only try to celebrate the game but also the colourful activities of the supporters and everything inside and outside the arena, which hopes to belong to the game, the “stage” for the event extends and diffuses at the same time. Hence a distinction was established between the architecture of the stadium and the architecture of the event. Sometimes they are completely different in space and time and sometimes they behave like images in a mirror. Yet through their interaction finally the functionalist dream becomes true: Whether they are visible or not depends on the event itself. The essay will discuss some examples of this irritating and mirroring effect provoked by the presence of television cameras in football stadiums. They might demonstrate the close relationship of this particular and still underestimated mass medium to modern architecture and relate event architecture to the theories of Jacques Lacan.deuIn Copyrightarchitecture|football stadiumtelevision camerasspace-time80072010.25969/mediarep/19797978-3-902571-81-6