Writing on the Image : Architecture, the City and the Politics of Representation (Hardcover)

Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements Foreword by Paul Carter Introduction 1. The King in the City: On the Iconology of George IV in Edinburgh 2. Cityscape with Ferris Wheel: Chicago 1893 3. Falling Upon Warsaw: The Shadow of Stalin's 'Palace of Culture' 4. Adventures on the Vertical: From the New Vision to Powers of Ten 5. 'The Way the World Sees London': Thoughts on a Millennial Urban Spectacle 6. The Aerial Image: Transparency, Vertigo and Miniaturisation 7. Clouds of Architecture 8. Utopia on Ice: The Sunny Mountain Ski Dome as an Allegory of the Future 9. On Google Earth 10. Transcoded Indexicality 11. Voice, Monstrosity and Flaying: Anish Kapoor's Marsyas as a Silent Sound Work 12. Architecture and A-disciplinarity? Afterword by Ella Chmielewska Notes on the chapters Bibliography Index