The era of spectacle. Adventures of architecture and the city of the 21st century.
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In Dubai, a luxurious residential building is built in the shape of a giant iPod. In Beijing, Herzog and de Meuron are constructing the "Bird's Nest" stadium. In Cincinnati, Zaha Hadid is paid millions for designing a "signature" building in the hope that it alone will change the fate of the entire region. "Star architects" compete in designing increasingly monumental, striking, and extravagant buildings that radically transform the surrounding landscape: Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Norman Foster's "Cucumber," Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum in Berlin... Over the past fifty years, a true revolution has taken place in the life of our cities. Tom Dyckhoff (born 1971), a British critic of architecture and urbanism, tells the story of its course and results with knowledge, scope, and humor. Exploring urban landscapes from New York to Beijing, from Bilbao to Astana, he shows that we are not just witnessing the emergence of a new type of building: we are living in a period of fundamental transformation of how modern spaces work in entrepreneurial cities.
Author:
Author:Dykhoff Tom
Cover:
Cover:soft
Category:
- Category:Computer & Technology
- Category:History & Geography
Dimensions:
Dimensions:24.5x17x2 cm
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-91103-673-7
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