UID:
almahu_9949385998302882
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 196 pages) :
,
illustrations
ISBN:
9780429259647
,
0429259646
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9780429521829
,
0429521820
,
9780429535291
,
0429535295
,
9780429549991
,
0429549997
Content:
Digital Monuments radically explodes "iconic architecture" of the new millennium and its hijacking of the public imagination via the digital image. Hallucinatory constructions such as Rem Koolhaas's CCTV headquarters in Beijing, Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and Zaha Hadid's Performing Arts Centre in Abu Dhabi are all introduced to the world by immortal digital imagery that floods the internet--yet comes to haunt the actualised buildings. Like holograms, these "digital monuments," which violently push physics and engineering to their limits, flicker eerily between the real and the unreal--invoking fantasies of omnipotence, immortality and utopian cities. But this experience of iconic architecture as a digital dream on the ground conceals from the urban spectator the social reality of the buildings and the rigidity of their ideology. In 18 micro-essays, Digital Monuments exposes the stereotypes of iconic architecture while depicting the savagery of the industry, from the Greek and Spanish crises triggered by financialised iconic development to mass labour-deaths on construction sites in the UAE.
Note:
Digital ghost -- Modernity's opiate -- Anti-iconic -- Reflections from damaged modernity -- Elysium -- Loop -- Sacrifice -- How iconic architecture triggered the Greek crisis -- The look of money -- Futurist iconic -- The architect-financier -- The abuses of iconic architecture -- The Zaha Hadid scandal -- Iconic dystopias and moral law -- The moral contents of the digital image -- Vagina Stadium -- Autonomy and vanity -- After iconic architecture.
Additional Edition:
Ebook version : ISBN 9780429535291
Additional Edition:
Print version: Brott, Simone. Digital monuments. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020 ISBN 9780367201111
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0367201119
Language:
English
Subjects:
Engineering
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books
DOI:
10.4324/9780429259647
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429259647
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