The Late Capitalist Skyscraper Theoretically Considered
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Title
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The Late Capitalist Skyscraper Theoretically Considered
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Description
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This dissertation outlines a portrait of the skyscraper within the context of the contemporary urban world, undertaking an analysis that spans the period contained between 1973 and the present. Through a critique of key theoretical texts from the late-twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, the project traces the building’s manifold relations with logics of financial abstraction and urbanization, as well as its complex symbolic and spatial roles amid a period characterized by global crises and the deployment of capital at a planetary scale. Assembled as a multilayered narrative in which architectural theory intersects with a constellation of critical discourses and a mosaic of visual materials, The Late Capitalist Skyscraper reads the ongoing metamorphoses of the type as intrinsically connected to emerging modalities of capital accumulation and its associated socio-spatial implications across a wide range of vertical urban landscapes and territorial formations.
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Doctor of Design
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Creator
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Gomez Luque, Mariano
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Contributor
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Brenner, Neil
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Waldheim, Charles
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Spencer, Douglas
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Date
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2019-07-31T07:40:25Z
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2019-05
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2019-05-21
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2019
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2019-07-31T07:40:25Z
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Type
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Thesis or Dissertation
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text
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Format
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application/pdf
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application/pdf
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Identifier
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Gomez Luque, Mariano. 2019. The Late Capitalist Skyscraper Theoretically Considered. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:41021634
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Language
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en