Tower to Tower: Gigantism in Architecture and Digital Culture
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Book Overview A cultural history of gigantism in architecture and digital culture, from the Eiffel Tower to the World Trade Center.The gigantic is ever...
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.
Book Details Format: Paperback | Pages: 248 | Language: English | Publisher: MIT PR | ISBN: 0262552043
FormatPaperback
Pages248
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0262552043
EAN9780262552042
PublisherMIT PR
Publication Date2024-05-21
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeQUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKS
Weight0.99 Pounds
Length9.0 Inches
Width6.0 Inches
Height0.67 Inches
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