Digital Monuments

Digital Monuments
Author :
Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 221
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780429535291
ISBN-13 : 0429535295
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Digital Monuments by : Simone Brott

Download or read book Digital Monuments written by Simone Brott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-18 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


Digital Monuments Related Books

Digital Monuments
Language: en
Pages: 221
Authors: Simone Brott
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-09-18 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Digital Monuments radically explodes "iconic architecture" of the new millennium and its hijacking of the public imagination via the digital image. Hallucinator
Digital Cultural Heritage
Language: en
Pages: 440
Authors: Horst Kremers
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-06-21 - Publisher: Springer

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book provides an overview of various application spheres and supports further innovations needed in information management and in the processes of knowledg
Foxe's Book Of Martyrs
Language: en
Pages: 950
Authors: John Foxe
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Acts and Monuments by John Foxe, popularly abridged as Foxe's Book of Martyrs, is a celebrated work of church history and martyrology, first published in Englis
Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection
Language: en
Pages: 914
Authors: Marinos Ioannides
Categories: Computers
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-10-30 - Publisher: Springer

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This two-volume set LNCS 10058 and LNCS 10059 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Digital Heritage, EuroMed 2016, held i
The Ruins of the Most Beautiful Monuments of Greece
Language: en
Pages: 572
Authors: David Le Roy
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Getty Publications

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The striking engravings of Julien-David Le Roy's The Ruins of the Most Beautiful Monuments of Greece (1758) first revealed the architectural wonders of ancient