Digital Monuments : The Dreams and Abuses of Iconic Architecture /
Brott, Simone.
Digital Monuments : The Dreams and Abuses of Iconic Architecture / Simone Brott. - 1 online resource (209 pages)
Cover -- Praise -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: architecture's fake left -- Definitions -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Digital ghost -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Modernity's opiate -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Anti-iconic -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Reflections from damaged modernity -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Elysium -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Loop -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Sacrifice -- Debt repayment -- Notes -- Chapter 8: How iconic architecture triggered the Greek crisis -- Notes -- Chapter 9: The look of money -- Notes -- Chapter 10: Futurist iconic -- Notes -- Chapter 11: The architect-financier -- Notes -- Chapter 12: The abuses of iconic architecture -- Notes -- Chapter 13: The Zaha Hadid scandal -- Moral distance -- Notes -- Chapter 14: Iconic dystopias and moral law -- Just say no -- Why does architecture get a pass? -- Notes -- Chapter 15: The moral contents of the digital image -- Note -- Chapter 16: Vagina stadium -- Notes -- Chapter 17: Autonomy and vanity -- Chapter 18: After iconic architecture -- Georges Teyssot -- Marko Jobst -- Wolf D. Prix -- Ben van Berkel -- Joseph Young -- David Gianotten -- Simon Sadler -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index.
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.
9780429521829
Architecture and fame.
Digital images.
Architecture--Psychological aspects.
Electronic books.
NA2543 .F35 / .B76 2020
720.103
Digital Monuments : The Dreams and Abuses of Iconic Architecture / Simone Brott. - 1 online resource (209 pages)
Cover -- Praise -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: architecture's fake left -- Definitions -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Digital ghost -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Modernity's opiate -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Anti-iconic -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Reflections from damaged modernity -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Elysium -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Loop -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Sacrifice -- Debt repayment -- Notes -- Chapter 8: How iconic architecture triggered the Greek crisis -- Notes -- Chapter 9: The look of money -- Notes -- Chapter 10: Futurist iconic -- Notes -- Chapter 11: The architect-financier -- Notes -- Chapter 12: The abuses of iconic architecture -- Notes -- Chapter 13: The Zaha Hadid scandal -- Moral distance -- Notes -- Chapter 14: Iconic dystopias and moral law -- Just say no -- Why does architecture get a pass? -- Notes -- Chapter 15: The moral contents of the digital image -- Note -- Chapter 16: Vagina stadium -- Notes -- Chapter 17: Autonomy and vanity -- Chapter 18: After iconic architecture -- Georges Teyssot -- Marko Jobst -- Wolf D. Prix -- Ben van Berkel -- Joseph Young -- David Gianotten -- Simon Sadler -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index.
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.
9780429521829
Architecture and fame.
Digital images.
Architecture--Psychological aspects.
Electronic books.
NA2543 .F35 / .B76 2020
720.103