Babel's Present

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-3-9523540-8-7
Verlag: Standpunkte

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 72 Seiten, PB, Format (B × H): 110 mm x 150 mm, Gewicht: 80 g

Reihe: Standpunkte Dokumente

The Tower of Babel is known for its absence. A landmark of architectural self-doubt, it has survived not as a physical object but through its representation in text and image. But over the last century, the Tower has rematerialized in an enigmatic array of projects that invite reassessment.
From Robert Koldewey’s excavations in Mesopotamia, to full-scale reassemblies in Berlin, surrogate reconstructions by Saddam Hussein, and mock ruins built in upstate New York for the US Department of Defense, Dugdale plots this story against the background of recent conflict in Iraq, presenting Babel as a vital challenge to the politics of architecture’s material presence.

Zielgruppe

Architekten, Stadtplaner, Stadtentwickler, Denkmalpfleger, Heimatschützer, Restauratoren, Architekturhistoriker, Kunsthistoriker, Historiker, Spaziergangswissenschaftler, Maler, Soziologen, Psychologen, Archäologen

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dugdale, Kyle

Geiser, Reto

Richter, Tilo

Inhaltsverzeichnis

7 Babel’s Present — 10 Ur, Not Babel — 17 London, Paris, Berlin, New York — 23 Babylon, Google Earth — 28 Camp Babylon — 40 Berlin–Babylon — 51 On Presence and Absence — 57 Appendix

Über Autor(innen)

Dugdale, Kyle
Kyle Dugdale is an architect and a theorist, with a particular interest in architecture’s claims to metaphysical significance. He is a graduate of Corpus Christi College, Oxford; of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design; and of Yale School of Architecture, where he teaches history, theory, and design. In 2015 he received Yale University’s Theron Rockwell Field Prize for his doctoral dissertation, “Architecture After the Death of God: Uriel Birnbaum’s Der Kaiser und der Architekt.”