Digital Monuments radically explodes "iconic architecture" of the
new millennium and its hijacking of the public imagination via the
digital image. Hallucinatory constructions such as Rem Koolhaas's
CCTV headquarters in Beijing, Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in
Bilbao and Zaha Hadid's Performing Arts Centre in Abu Dhabi are all
introduced to the world by immortal digital imagery that floods the
internet-yet comes to haunt the actualised buildings. Like
holograms, these "digital monuments," which violently push physics
and engineering to their limits, flicker eerily between the real
and the unreal-invoking fantasies of omnipotence, immortality and
utopian cities. But this experience of iconic architecture as a
digital dream on the ground conceals from the urban spectator the
social reality of the buildings and the rigidity of their ideology.
In 18 micro-essays, Digital Monuments exposes the stereotypes of
iconic architecture while depicting the savagery of the industry,
from the Greek and Spanish crises triggered by financialised iconic
development to mass labour-deaths on construction sites in the UAE.
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