Architecture, Media, and Memory: Facing Complexity in Post-9/11 New York

McKim, Joel

ISBN 10: 1350170518 / ISBN 13: 9781350170513

Published by Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Architecture, Media, and Memory: Facing Complexity in Post-9/11 New York
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350170518
• ISBN 13: 9781350170513
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Architecture, Media and Memory examines the wide range of urban sites impacted by September 11 and its aftermath – from the spontaneous memorials that emerged in Union Square in the hours after the attacks, to the reconstruction at Ground Zero, to vast ongoing landscape urbanism projects beyond. Yet this is not simply a book about post-9/11 architecture. It instead presents 9/11 as a multifaceted case study to explore a discourse on memory and its representation in the built environment. It argues that the reconstruction of New York must be considered in relation to larger issues of urban development, ongoing global conflicts, the rise of digital media, and the culture, philosophy and aesthetics of memory. It shows how understanding architecture in New York post-9/11 requires bringing memory into contact with a complex array of political, economic and social forces. Demonstrating an ability to explain complex philosophical ideas in language that will be accessible to students and researchers alike in architecture, urban studies, cultural studies and memory studies, this book serves as a thought-provoking account of the intertwining of contemporary architecture, media and memory.

About the Author

Dr Joel McKim is director of the Vasari Research Centre in Art and Technology and co-director of the BA programme in Media and Culture at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.