Tower to Tower

Released on by Henriette Steiner
preview-18

  • Tower to Tower Book Detail

  • Author : Henriette Steiner
  • Release Date : 2020-05-12
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Genre : Architecture
  • Pages : 247
  • ISBN 13 : 0262358344
  • File Size : 69,69 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Tower to Tower by Henriette Steiner PDF Summary

Book Description: A cultural history of gigantism in architecture and digital culture, from the Eiffel Tower to the World Trade Center. The gigantic is everywhere, and gigantism is manifest in everything from excessively tall skyscrapers to globe-spanning digital networks. In this book, Henriette Steiner and Kristin Veel map and critique the trajectory of gigantism in architecture and digital culture—the convergence of tall buildings and networked infrastructures—from the Eiffel Tower to One World Trade Center. They show how these two forms of gigantism intersect in the figure of the skyscraper with a transmitting antenna on its roof, a gigantic building that is also a nodal point in a gigantic digital infrastructure. Steiner and Veel focus on two paradigmatic tower sites: the Eiffel Tower and the Twin Towers of the destroyed World Trade Center (as well as their replacement, the One World Trade Center tower). They consider, among other things, philosophical interpretations of the Eiffel Tower; the design and destruction of the Twin Towers; the architectural debates surrounding the erection of One World Trade Center on the Ground Zero site; and such recent examples of gigantism across architecture and digital culture as Rem Koolhaas's headquarters for China Central TV and the phenomenon of the “tech giant.” Examining the cultural, architectural, and media history of these towers, they analyze the changing conceptions of the gigantism that they represent, not just as physical structures but as sites for the projection of cultural ideas and ideals.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Tower to Tower books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Tower to Tower

Tower to Tower

File Size : 70,70 MB
Total View : 2655 Views
DOWNLOAD

A cultural history of gigantism in architecture and digital culture, from the Eiffel Tower to the World Trade Center. The gigantic is everywhere, and gigantism

The Desert

The Desert

File Size : 98,98 MB
Total View : 2259 Views
DOWNLOAD

With the majority of humankind lorded over by a race of intelligent flesh-eating spiders, a young warrior named Nial may have the only chance to discover the se

The Tower

The Tower

File Size : 34,34 MB
Total View : 4298 Views
DOWNLOAD

Patagonia’s Cerro Torre, considered by many the most beautiful peak in the world, draws the finest and most devoted technical alpinists to its climbing challe