ATU Sligo /ATU St Angela's

go

Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

The architecture of aftermath /

By: Smith, Terry (Terry E.).
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006Description: xiii, 246 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780226764689; 9780226764689:.Subject(s): Architecture and society | Symbolism in architecture | Architecture, Modern -- 20th century | Architecture, Modern -- 21st centuryDDC classification: 720.103
Contents:
Introduction : after effects : architecture, iconomy, contemporaneity -- pt. I: Dispacing time. The Bilbao affect : culture as industry -- Flashback : Uluru and the Sydney Opera House -- The past-modern present : empire redux at the Getty Center -- Remembrance now : architecture after Auschwitz at the Jewish Museum, Berlin -- pt. II: Targets and opportunities. WTC fast forward : skyscrapers on the isle of the dead -- Architecture's unconscious : trauma and the contemporary sublime at Ground Zero -- Shock. Build. Mourn. Hope : architects confront contemporaneity -- Conclusion : aftermath and after.
Summary: Smith traces the growth of the spectacular architecture of modernity & then charts its aftermath in the conditions of contemporaneity. His focus is on how global politics, clashing cultures & symbolic warfare have changed the way we experience destination architecture.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 720.103 SMI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0073844
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : after effects : architecture, iconomy, contemporaneity -- pt. I: Dispacing time. The Bilbao affect : culture as industry -- Flashback : Uluru and the Sydney Opera House -- The past-modern present : empire redux at the Getty Center -- Remembrance now : architecture after Auschwitz at the Jewish Museum, Berlin -- pt. II: Targets and opportunities. WTC fast forward : skyscrapers on the isle of the dead -- Architecture's unconscious : trauma and the contemporary sublime at Ground Zero -- Shock. Build. Mourn. Hope : architects confront contemporaneity -- Conclusion : aftermath and after.

Smith traces the growth of the spectacular architecture of modernity & then charts its aftermath in the conditions of contemporaneity. His focus is on how global politics, clashing cultures & symbolic warfare have changed the way we experience destination architecture.

Share