The age of spectacle : adventures in architecture and the 21st-century city / Tom Dyckhoff.

Main entry:

Dyckhoff, Tom, author.

Title & Author:

The age of spectacle : adventures in architecture and the 21st-century city / Tom Dyckhoff.

Publication:

London : Random House Books, 2017.
©2017

Description:

378 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-367) and index.
The view from here -- City of the dead -- People power -- Selling the city -- Brandscapes -- The right to buy -- The curious habits of the starchitect -- If walls could talk -- Meet the most famous architect in the world.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Over the last fifty years, there has been a revolution in how our cities operate. In The Age of Spectacle, Tom Dyckhoff tells the story of how architecture became obsessed with the flashy, the monumental and the ostentatious - and how we all have to live with the consequences. Exploring cityscapes from New York to Beijing, and from Bilbao to Portsmouth, Dyckhoff shows that we are not just witnessing a new kind of building: we are living through a fundamental transformation in how our urban spaces work. The corporate explosion of the last few decades has fundamentally shifted the relationship between architects, politicians and cities' inhabitants, fostering innovative new kinds of engineering and design, but also facilitating ill-conceived vanity projects and commercial power-grabs -- Amazon.com.

ISBN:

9781847946522 (hardback)
1847946526 (hardback)

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 21st century.
Architecture History.
Cities and towns.
Spectacular, The History.
Architecture 21e siècle.
Architecture Histoire.
Villes.
Spectaculaire Histoire.
cities.
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture.
Spectacular, The.
Cities and towns History 21st century.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 299680
Call No.: BIB 245833
Status: Available

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