The architecture of aftermath /
By: Smith, Terry (Terry E.)
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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![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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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.