The architecture of aftermath / Terry Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Terry E. (Terry Eugene), 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and society.

Symbolism in architecture.

Architecture, Modern--20th century.

Architecture, Modern.

Architecture, Modern--21st century.

Physical Description:

xiii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Summary:

The September 11 terrorist attacks targeted, in Osama bin Laden's words, "America's icons of military and economic power." In The Architecture of Aftermath, Terry Smith argues that it was no accident that these targets were buildings: architecture has long served as a symbol of proud, defiant power-and never more so than in the late twentieth century.

But after September 11, Smith asserts, late modern architecture suddenly seemed an indulgence. With close readings of key buildings-in-cluding Jorn Utzon's Sydney Opera House, Minoru Yamasaki's World Trade Center, Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and Richard Meier's Getty Center-Smith traces the growth of the spectacular-architecture of modernity and then charts its aftermath in the conditions of contemporaneity. Indeed, Smith focuses on the very culture of aftermath itself, exploring the ways global politics, clashing cultures, and symbolic warfare have changed the way we experience "destination" architecture.

Contents:

Introduction: After Effects-Architecture, Iconomy, Contemporaneity 1

Part I Dispacing Time

1 The Bilbao Affect: Culture as Industry 19

2 Flashback: Uluru and the Sydney Opera House 35

3 The Past-Modern Present: Empire Redux at the Getty Center 50

4 Remembrance Now: Architecture after Auschwitz at the Jewish Museum, Berlin 67

Part II Targets and Opportunities

5 WTC Fast Forward: Skyscrapers on the Isle of the Dead 97

6 Architecture's Unconscious: Trauma and the Contemporary Sublime at Ground Zero 124

7 Shock.Build.Mourn.Hope: Architects Confront Contemporaneity 160

Conclusion: Aftermath and After 190.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-231) and index.

ISBN:

0226764680

0226764699

OCLC:

61478764

Publisher Number:

9780226764689

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