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Tower to Tower Tower to Tower Gigantism in Architecture and Digital Culture Henriette Steiner and Kristin Veel The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England © 2020 Massachusetts Institute of Technology All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Steiner, Henriette, 1980- author. | Veel, Kristin, author. Title: Tower to tower : gigantism in architecture and digital culture / Henriette Steiner and Kristin Veel. Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2019031894 | ISBN 9780262043922 (hardcover) Subjects: LCSH: Architecture- - Composition, proportion, etc. | Digital communications- - Social aspects. | Largeness (Philosophy) Classification: LCC NA2760 .S76 2020 | DDC 720.1- - dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019031894 For Sofus Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Prologue: Scaffolding 1 A Tale of Two Cities, A Tale of Two (and More) Towers 4 Gigantism 8 Vertical and Horizontal Gigantism 13 Gigantic Dichotomies, Containers, and Leaks 18 Tower to Tower 20 Latent Gigantism 23 1 The Eiffel Tower: Grand- Scale Montage and Lightning Rod for Meaning 28 Prologue: An Elevator Ride 29 Going Up 32 Montage as Method 35 Seeing the Eiffel Tower See: Expanding Meaning 47 Leaks, Crisis, and Gigantism 53 2 The Twin Towers: The Remanence of the Twins 64 Prologue: A Telephone Conversation on 9/11 65 Scales of Impact 68 The Twin Towers and the Intermingling of Vertical and Horizontal 74 Challenging the View from Above 80 Is Architecture in or above History? 86 Towering, Falling 94 3 The One World Observatory: Caught between Vertical and Horizontal Gigantism 100 Prologue: Gigantic Buildings 101 The Sky’s the Limit 104 One World Trade Center and the New Metropolitan Mainstream 109 viii Contents The Womb as Time Machine 116 A Leaking Container 124 New Visual Orders 129 Temporal and Material Excess 136 4 The Ground Zero Site: Calmly Common 142 Prologue: Trump Tower 143 The Fifth Leak 146 Never Ever Modern 149 Calculated Publics at the Edge of the Memorial Pools 152 From Containment to Leaks 164 5 Into the Ground: Cataloging Latent Gigantism 172 Prologue: The Earth Leaks 173 Tower to Tower and Beyond 175 Kool Chinese Twisted Twin Towers 181 Telling Tales of Tech Giants 188 Big Business beneath Manhattan 195 Epilogue: The Bias Cut 202 Notes 205 Index 223
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