The Age of Spectacle
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'A great storyteller . . . you would be hard pushed to find a more
knowledgeable or entertaining [guide]' Icon'Such an interesting
book . . . I cannot recommend it enough.' Lauren LaverneIn Dubai, a
luxury apartment block is built in the shape of a giant iPod. In
China, President Xi Jinping denounces the trend of constructing
`bizarre' new buildings in wacky shapes and colours. In Cincinnati,
celebrity architect Zaha Hadid is paid millions to design a single
`iconic' structure - with the hope of single-handedly transforming
the region's ailing fortunes. These incidents are all part of the
same story: the rise of the age of spectacle. Over the last fifty
years, there has been a revolution in how our cities operate. In
The Age of Spectacle, Tom Dyckhoff tells the story of how
architecture became obsessed with the flashy, the monumental and
the ostentatious - and how we all have to live with the
consequences. Exploring cityscapes from New York to Beijing, and
from Bilbao to Portsmouth, Dyckhoff shows that we are not just
witnessing a new kind of building: we are living through a
fundamental transformation in how our urban spaces work. The
corporate explosion of the last few decades has fundamentally
shifted the relationship between architects, politicians and
cities' inhabitants, fostering innovative new kinds of engineering
and design, but also facilitating ill-conceived vanity projects and
commercial power-grabs. Timely, passionate and bursting with new
ideas, The Age of Spectacle is both an examination of how
twenty-first century cities work, and a manifesto for a radically
new kind of urbanism. Our cities, Dyckhoff shows, can thrive in the
age of spectacle - but only if they engage us not just with
dazzling structures, but by responding to the needs of the people
who inhabit them. 'Engaging . . . The ",iconic", building is the
most obvious architectural phenomenon of our age yet, somehow, no
one has quite done what Tom Dyckhoff does with The Age of
Spectacle, which is to tell its story clearly and plainly.' Rowan
Moore, Observer'First class. Finally, a book that nails the iconic
movement - Tom Dyckhoff's The Age of Spectacle is the book that I
wish I had written.' Simon Jenkins'Unusually accessible [and] well
argued.' Evening Standard
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