Future of the Skyscraper Nobel Philip
Future of the Skyscraper Nobel Philip Engines of industry, expressions of ego or will, tall towers are nonetheless, when they pierce the shared skies, intensely public. What do these forms mean? We…
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Future of the Skyscraper Nobel Philip
Engines of industry, expressions of ego or will, tall towers are nonetheless, when they pierce the shared skies, intensely public. What do these forms mean? We may ask of them artistic questions: what do we make of these things we make?
In this volume, Bruce Sterling describes four possible futures that might shape future towers, presenting a choose-your-own-adventure of potential futures for architecture, some of them terrifying in their nearness. But also, because architecture is forever tied to real life, we may ask of them questions of a political, economic and technological nature--as well as those, touching on the body and the mind and the soul, that we may simply call human. We peer up at skyscrapers old and new, visit their highest floors, turn them this way and that to see them clearly through the psychology (Tom Vanderbilt) and physiology (Emily Badger) of living and working
Betraying the Nobel
The Nobel Family
The History of the Future
The Future of the Professions
The Work of the Future
Crimes of the Future
Vision of the Future
Industries of the Future
The Future of Power
Future of the Book
The Future of War
The Future of Medicine
Physics of the Future
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