Title & Author:

5 codes : architecture, paranoia and risk in times of terror / [editors, Gerd de Bruyn ... et al. ; translation into English, Michael Robinson].

Publication:

Basel ; Boston, MA : Birkhäuser, ©2006.

Description:

299 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
"Featuring Shumon Basar, Victor Burgin, Noam Chomsky, Beatriz Colomina, Sam Jacob, Janice Kerbel, Brian Massumi, Markus Miessen, Heiner Mü̈hlmann, Martin Pawley, Philipp Sarasin, Kersten Schagemann, Eyal Weizman, Krystian Woznicki"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references.
5 codes : on architecture, paranoia and risk / Stephan Truby -- Jet settlements : a regressive utopia / WTO -- Architecture in the age of paranoia or : primitive huts in the schrebergarten / Gerd de Bruyn -- On homeland, paranoia and security / Noam Chomsky -- Leviathanland / Exit LTD. -- Utopia of fear : the endless green-leafed psychotic dream of the suburbs / Sam Jacon -- The underground home / Beatriz Colomina -- Jerry the Bulgarian / Iassen Markov -- Temporary facts, flexible lines : the concept of security in Israeli territorial design / Eyal Weizman -- The statu(t)e of liberty : spatial location as a blueprint of evil / Markus Miessen -- Paranoiac space / Victor Burgin -- From WTC to the CTW / WTO -- Phantom security / Martin Pawley -- Escpae from the bank job / Janice Kerbel -- Exit architecture : design theory, architecture and maximal stress : cooperation after 9/11 / Kersten Schagemann, Stephan Truby -- The economics machine / Heiner Mühlmann -- United Kingdom / Iassen Markov -- Beyond the event horizon : the war room as a mass media system / Krystian Woznicki -- Can you see more clearly now? Monsters are everywhere / Shumon Basar -- Racism and sovereignty : Tom Clancy and the "naked life" / Philipp Sarasin -- Fear (the spectrum said) / Brian Massumi.
Translated from the German.

Summary:

The primary task of the Department of Homeland Security is to keep the terrorist threat in permanent view. Igmade examines the entanglements and connections between city, space, risk and paranoia which determine our lives as urbanism and architecture become more powerfully marked by the worldwide culture of fear.

Resources:
Inhaltstext

ISBN:

3764375973 (alk. paper)
9783764375973 (alk. paper)
9783764375980 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
3764375981 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture Psychological aspects.
Architecture and society.
Space (Architecture)
Terrorism.
Fear.
Architecture Aspect psychologique.
Architecture et société.
Espace (Architecture)
Terrorisme.
Peur.
terrorism.
fear.
Architektur
Terrorismus
Architektur Terrorismus Geschichte Aufsatzsammlung.
Terrorismus Architektur Geschichte Aufsatzsammlung.
Architecture Social aspects.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Bruyn, Gerd de.

Five codes

Holdings:

Location: Library main 250403
Call No.: BIB 179904
Status: Available