دانلود کتاب Tower to Tower: Gigantism in Architecture and Digital Culture

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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Prologue: Scaffolding
A Tale of Two Cities, A Tale of Two (and More) Towers
Gigantism
Vertical and Horizontal Gigantism
Gigantic Dichotomies, Containers, and Leaks
Tower to Tower
Latent Gigantism
1 The Eiffel Tower
Prologue: An Elevator Ride
Going Up
Montage as Method
Seeing the Eiffel Tower See: Expanding Meaning
Leaks, Crisis, and Gigantism
2 The Twin Towers
Prologue: A Telephone Conversation on 9/11
Scales of Impact
The Twin Towers and the Intermingling of Vertical and Horizontal
Challenging the View from Above
Is Architecture in or above History?
Towering, Falling
3 The One World Observatory
Prologue: Gigantic Buildings
The Sky’s the Limit
One World Trade Center and the New Metropolitan Mainstream
The Womb as Time Machine
A Leaking Container
New Visual Orders
Temporal and Material Excess
4 The Ground Zero Site
Prologue: Trump Tower
The Fifth Leak
Never Ever Modern
Calculated Publics at the Edge of the Memorial Pools
From Containment to Leaks
5 Into the Ground
Prologue: The Earth Leaks
Tower to Tower and Beyond
Kool Chinese Twisted Twin Towers
Telling Tales of Tech Giants
Big Business beneath Manhattan
Epilogue: The Bias Cut
Notes
Index