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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.

Architecture and fame. --- Digital images. --- Architecture --- Psychological aspects. --- Architecture et renommée --- Images numériques --- Aspect psychologique

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"The most famous monument of the Dutch Golden Age is undoubtedly the Amsterdam Town Hall by architect Jacob van Campen inaugurated in 1655. Today we stand in awe confronted with the grand Classicist façade, the delightful horror of the sculptures in the Tribunal, and the magnificence of the huge Citizens' Hall. In the period of its construction, many artists and writers tried to capture the overwhelming impact of the building by, among other comparisons, relating it to the ancient Wonders of the World and by stressing its splendour, riches, and impressive scale. In doing so, they constructed the Town Hall as the ultimate wonder, thus offering a silent, but very powerful testimony to the power and position of the City of Amsterdam and its rulers as equals of the other European regimes. To fully understand these mechanisms of power, this book relates the Town Hall to other, impressive buildings of the same period-the palace of the Louvre, Saint Peter's Basilica, and Banqueting House-and their visual and textual representations. Thus, this book gives a broad audience of readers new insights into the agency of magnificent buildings. The Amsterdam Town Hall in Words and Images does not restrict itself to a national scope or a purely architectural analysis, but clarifies how artists and writers all over Europe presented buildings as wonders of the world. This book is pioneering in its analysis of seventeenth and eighteenth-century paintings, prints, drawings, poems, and travel accounts and offers a new understanding of how the wondrous character of these grand buildings was constructed"--

Iconography --- Public buildings --- Thematology --- city halls --- wonders --- Amsterdam, Stadhuis --- Campen, van, Jacob --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- Europe --- Architecture and fame --- Curiosities and wonders --- Campen, Jacob van, --- Van Campen, Jacob, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Koninklijk Paleis (Amsterdam, Netherlands) --- City House (Amsterdam, Netherlands) --- Hôtel de ville (Amsterdam, Netherlands) --- Old Town Hall (Amsterdam, Netherlands) --- Oude Stadhuis (Amsterdam, Netherlands) --- Paleis (Amsterdam, Netherlands) --- Paleis op de Dam (Amsterdam, Netherlands) --- Royal Palace (Amsterdam, Netherlands) --- Stadhuis (Amsterdam, Netherlands) --- Town Hall (Amsterdam, Netherlands) --- Curia Amstelrodamensis (Amsterdam, Netherlands) --- Curia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) --- Stadthuys (Amsterdam, Netherlands) --- Stadt-huys (Amsterdam, Netherlands) --- Maison de ville (Amsterdam, Netherlands) --- Amsterdam (Netherlands) --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- Fame and architecture --- Fame --- Enigmas --- Facts, Miscellaneous --- Miscellaneous facts --- Oddities --- Trivia --- Wonders