ISBN: 9780367201128 - digital monuments: the dreams and abuses of iconic architecture (19 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. 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 Koolhaass CCTV headquarters in Beijing, Frank Gehrys Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and Zaha Hadids Performing Arts Centre in Abu Dhabi are all introduced to the world by immortal digital imagery that floods the internetyet 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 unrealinvoking 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. 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. 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 Koolhaass CCTV headquarters in Beijing, Frank Gehrys Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and Zaha Hadids Performing Arts Centre in Abu Dhabi are all introduced to the world by immortal digital imagery that floods the internetyet 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 unrealinvoking 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. 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. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

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Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. Simone Brott is an architect and theorist, and Senior Lecturer in Architecture at Queensland University of Technology. Educated at Yale University and The University of Melbourne, she writes on the politics of the digital image in archit.

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