Main entry:

Brott, Simone, author.

Title & Author:

Digital monuments : the dreams and abuses of iconic architecture / Simone Brott.

Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
©2020

Description:

xi, 196 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

Summary:

"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."-- From Amazon.

ISBN:

9780367201111 hardcover ; alkaline paper
0367201119 hardcover ; alkaline paper
9780367201128 paperback ; alkaline paper
0367201127 paperback ; alkaline paper
electronic book
9780429259647
9780429535291
9780429521829
9780429549991

Subject:

Architecture and fame.
Architecture Psychological aspects.
Digital images.
Architecture et renommée.
Architecture Aspect psychologique.
Images numériques.
digital images.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 307198
Call No.: BIB 252690
Status: Available