Architecture of Aftermath

Name: Architecture of Aftermath
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ISBN: 9780226764696

ISBN-10: 0226764699

ISBN-13: 9780226764696

Edition: 2006

Authors: Terry Smith

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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--including 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…

Book details

List price: $44.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/15/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 0.70" wide x 1.01" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English

Terry Smith is a Distinguished Research Professor at DePauw College of Law.



Acknowledgments


List of Illustrations


Introduction: After Effects-Architecture, Iconomy, Contemporaneity



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



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


Notes


Index