Tower to Tower
Title | Tower to Tower PDF eBook |
Author | Henriette Steiner |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Total Pages | 247 |
Release | 2020-05-12 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0262358344 |
A cultural history of gigantism in architecture and digital culture, from the Eiffel Tower to the World Trade Center. The gigantic is everywhere, and gigantism is manifest in everything from excessively tall skyscrapers to globe-spanning digital networks. In this book, Henriette Steiner and Kristin Veel map and critique the trajectory of gigantism in architecture and digital culture—the convergence of tall buildings and networked infrastructures—from the Eiffel Tower to One World Trade Center. They show how these two forms of gigantism intersect in the figure of the skyscraper with a transmitting antenna on its roof, a gigantic building that is also a nodal point in a gigantic digital infrastructure. Steiner and Veel focus on two paradigmatic tower sites: the Eiffel Tower and the Twin Towers of the destroyed World Trade Center (as well as their replacement, the One World Trade Center tower). They consider, among other things, philosophical interpretations of the Eiffel Tower; the design and destruction of the Twin Towers; the architectural debates surrounding the erection of One World Trade Center on the Ground Zero site; and such recent examples of gigantism across architecture and digital culture as Rem Koolhaas's headquarters for China Central TV and the phenomenon of the “tech giant.” Examining the cultural, architectural, and media history of these towers, they analyze the changing conceptions of the gigantism that they represent, not just as physical structures but as sites for the projection of cultural ideas and ideals.
Spider World, the Tower
Title | Spider World, the Tower PDF eBook |
Author | Colin Wilson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 398 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Spiders |
ISBN | 9780246131461 |
The Desert
Title | The Desert PDF eBook |
Author | Colin Wilson |
Publisher | Ace Books |
Total Pages | 163 |
Release | 1988-09-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780441778102 |
With the majority of humankind lorded over by a race of intelligent flesh-eating spiders, a young warrior named Nial may have the only chance to discover the secret of the spiders
Forbidden Towers
Title | Forbidden Towers PDF eBook |
Author | Carol Gaskin |
Publisher | Troll Communications |
Total Pages | 132 |
Release | 2003-07 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780816775972 |
As Lifin, a young elf, the reader makes decisions controlling his search through the five Forbidden Towers for the herb that will cure his people of the eleven plague.
Spider World
Title | Spider World PDF eBook |
Author | Colin Wilson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
There's a Spider in This Book
Title | There's a Spider in This Book PDF eBook |
Author | Claire Freedman |
Publisher | Macmillan Children's Books |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019-08 |
Genre | Cats |
ISBN | 9781509830787 |
There's a spider in this book. Are you brave enough to take a look?Eric the spider can't understand why people scream and run away from him. He only wants to say hello. But Fluffy the cat wants to eat Eric, so he's hiding. It's up to the reader to find Eric on every spread and maybe finally catch a glimpse of him with the surprise lift-the-flap ending!A funny and engaging story written by internationally bestselling author, Claire Freedman, and brought to life by Mike Byrne's hilarious and colourful illustrations.
The Tower
Title | The Tower PDF eBook |
Author | Colin Wilson |
Publisher | Ace Books |
Total Pages | 181 |
Release | 1988-12-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780441778119 |
With mankind enslaved by a race of giant spiders, Niall, a young man with a psionic brain, believes that the mysterious Tower holds the key to freedom