Digital Monuments: The Dreams and Abuses of Iconic Architecture

ISBN-13: 9780367201128 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 196 str.

Simone Brott

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction: Architecture’s Fake Left  1. Digital Ghost  2. Modernity’s Opiate  3. Anti-Iconic  4. Reflections from Damaged Modernity  5. Elysium  6. Loop  7. Sacrifice  8. How Iconic Architecture Triggered the Greek Crisis  9. The Look of Money  10. Futurist Iconic  11. The Architect-Financier  12. The Abuses of Iconic Architecture  13. The Zaha Hadid Scandal  14. Iconic Dystopias and Moral Law  15. The Moral Contents of the Digital Image  16. Vagina Stadium  17. Autonomy and Vanity  18. After Iconic Architecture  Select Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Simone Brott is an architect and theorist, and Senior Lecturer in Architecture at Queensland University of Technology. Educated at Yale University and The University of Melbourne, she writes on the politics of the digital image in architectural production and the contemporary city. Her books include Architecture for a Free Subjectivity: Deleuze and Guattari at the Horizon of the Real (Routledge, 2011) and Architecture Post Mortem: The Diastolic Architecture of Decline, Dystopia, and Death (New editions, Routledge, 2016). A regular contributor to Log (Anycorp, New York), Brott has also written for AD Architectural Design (Wiley, London); Thresholds: Journal of the MIT Department of Architecture; Architectural Theory Review: Journal of the Department of Architecture, The University of Sydney; Journal of Public Space (City Space, Italy); and The Journal of Architecture and Urbanism. She has lectured at Yale University, Harvard University, Boston University, the University of Michigan, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, and　the University of Melbourne. Brott is currently working on a new project about the financialisation of cities.