Tower to Tower [electronic resource] : Gigantism in Architecture and Digital Culture

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자료유형	e-Book
서명/저자사항	Tower to Tower [electronic resource]: Gigantism in Architecture and Digital Culture.
개인저자	Steiner, Henriette.  Veel, Kristin.
발행사항	Cambridge: MIT Press, 2020.
형태사항	1 online resource (247 p.).
총서사항	The MIT Press Ser.
기타형태 저록	Print version: Steiner, Henriette Tower to Tower : Gigantism in Architecture and Digital Culture Cambridge : MIT Press,c2020
ISBN	0262358336 9780262358330
일반주기	Description based upon print version of record.
내용주기	Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue: Scaffolding -- A Tale of Two Cities, A Tale of Two (and More) Towers -- Gigantism -- Vertical and Horizontal Gigantism -- Gigantic Dichotomies, Containers, and Leaks -- Tower to Tower -- Latent Gigantism -- 1 The Eiffel Tower -- Prologue: An Elevator Ride -- Going Up -- Montage as Method -- Seeing the Eiffel Tower See: Expanding Meaning -- Leaks, Crisis, and Gigantism -- 2 The Twin Towers -- Prologue: A Telephone Conversation on 9/11 -- Scales of Impact -- The Twin Towers and the Intermingling of Vertical and Horizontal Challenging the View from Above -- Is Architecture in or above History? -- Towering, Falling -- 3 The One World Observatory -- Prologue: Gigantic Buildings -- The Sky's the Limit -- One World Trade Center and the New Metropolitan Mainstream -- The Womb as Time Machine -- A Leaking Container -- New Visual Orders -- Temporal and Material Excess -- 4 The Ground Zero Site -- Prologue: Trump Tower -- The Fifth Leak -- Never Ever Modern -- Calculated Publics at the Edge of the Memorial Pools -- From Containment to Leaks -- 5 Into the Ground -- Prologue: The Earth Leaks -- Tower to Tower and Beyond Kool Chinese Twisted Twin Towers -- Telling Tales of Tech Giants -- Big Business beneath Manhattan -- Epilogue: The Bias Cut -- Notes -- Index
요약	A cultural history of gigantism in architecture and digital culture, from the Eiffel Tower to the World Trade Center.
일반주제명	Architecture --Composition, proportion, etc. Digital communications --Social aspects. Largeness (Philosophy)
분류기호(DDC)	720.1
언어	영어
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