{"product_id":"digital-monuments-simone-brott-9780367201111","title":"Digital Monuments: The Dreams and Abuses of Iconic Architecture","description":"\u003cp\u003eDigital Monuments radically explodes \"iconic architecture\" of the new millennium and its hijacking of the public imagination via the digital image. Hallucinatory constructions such as Rem Koolhaas's CCTV headquarters in Beijing, Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and Zaha Hadid's Performing Arts Centre in Abu Dhabi are all introduced to the world by immortal digital imagery that floods the internet--yet comes to haunt the actualised buildings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike holograms, these \"digital monuments,\" which violently push physics and engineering to their limits, flicker eerily between the real and the unreal--invoking fantasies of omnipotence, immortality and utopian cities. But this experience of iconic architecture as a digital dream \u003ci\u003eon the ground \u003c\/i\u003econceals from the urban spectator the social reality of the buildings and the rigidity of their ideology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 18 micro-essays, \u003ci\u003eDigital Monuments \u003c\/i\u003eexposes the stereotypes of iconic architecture while depicting the savagery of the industry, from the Greek and Spanish crises triggered by financialised iconic development to mass labour-deaths on construction sites in the UAE. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Simone Brott\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0367201119\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780367201111\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/08\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.50h x 5.10w x 0.60d","brand":"Simone Brott","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086503522559,"sku":"9780367201111","price":190.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_22f864b9-4ba9-4290-a52a-0088c936295e.jpg?v=1769095047","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/digital-monuments-simone-brott-9780367201111","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}