Main entry:

Smith, Terry (Terry E.), author.

Title & Author:

The architecture of aftermath / Terry Smith.

Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Description:

xiii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : after effects : architecture, iconomy, contemporaneity -- pt. I: Dispacing time. The Bilbao affect : culture as industry -- Flashback : Uluru and the Sydney Opera House -- The past-modern present : empire redux at the Getty Center -- Remembrance now : architecture after Auschwitz at the Jewish Museum, Berlin -- pt. II: Targets and opportunities. WTC fast forward : skyscrapers on the isle of the dead -- Architecture's unconscious : trauma and the contemporary sublime at Ground Zero -- Shock. Build. Mourn. Hope : architects confront contemporaneity -- Conclusion : aftermath and after.

Summary:

"The September 11 terrorist attacks targeted, in Osama bin Laden's words, "America's icons of military and economic power." In The Architecture of Aftermath, Terry Smith argues that it was no accident that these targets were buildings: architecture has long served as a symbol of proud, defiant power--and never more so than in the late twentieth century. But after September 11, Smith asserts, late modern architecture suddenly seemed an indulgence. With close readings of key buildings--including Jorn Utzon's Sydney Opera House, Minoru Yamasaki's World Trade Center, Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and Richard Meier's Getty Center--Smith traces the growth of the spectacular architecture of modernity and then charts its aftermath in the conditions of contemporaneity. Indeed, Smith focuses on the very culture of aftermath itself, exploring how global politics, clashing cultures, and symbolic warfare have changed the way we experience destination architecture. Like other artists everywhere, architects are responding to the idea of aftermath by questioning the viability of their forms and the validity of their purposes. With his richly illustrated The Architecture of Aftermath, Smith has done so as well."--Publisher's website.

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ISBN:

0226764680 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0226764699 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780226764696 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780226764689

Subject:

Gehry, Frank O. Bilbao Guggenheim Museum Museumsbau.
Museo Guggenheim Bilbao
Getty Center Los Angeles, Calif.
World Trade Center New York, NY
Architecture and society.
Symbolism in architecture.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture, Modern 21st century.
Architecture et société.
Symbolisme en architecture.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture 21e siècle.
Architecture, Modern.
Architektur
Architekturtheorie
Museumsbau
Symbolik
Bouwkunst.
11 September 2001.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
Arkitektur och samhälle.
Arkitektur symboliska aspekter.
Museumsbau des Jüdischen Museums Berlin
Opernhaus Sydney

Holdings:

Location: Library main 248396
Call No.: BIB 177942
Status: Available