Spectres of the Concrete Atlantis
| Author | Đorđe Bulajić |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Dpr-barcelona |
| ISBN | 9788412892260 |
| Idea Code | |
| Status | not yet published |
An accidental avant-garde. It began with a photograph, or rather, a misreading of one. In Buffalo’s grain elevators and silos, a rising generation of European modernists saw purity, logic, and a new style. But it was a mirage. Not a style, but a system: an architecture of logistics, speed, and extraction – the Amazon warehouse before Amazon. 'Spectres of the Concrete Atlantis' revisits these concrete leviathans not as monuments to progress, but as proto-platforms whose silence speaks the language of power and control. As architecture confronts the age of the internet, the cloud, and the algorithm, this book asks: who builds the next Atlantis, and who will write its myth?
| 112 p, ills bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English |
Regular price:
US$21.50
Product number:
idea48610
