Ground Zero: the socio-political minefield of symbolic architecture
A quick notice that Vol 2, no. 2 of ARCHITECTURE_MEDIA_POLITICS_SOCIETY is now available on-line.
Ten years ago this month Daniel Libeskind won the competition for Ground Zero. It was a story of politics, economics and media manipulation. In this month’s edition of the journal, he looks back on the most emotive and polemic architectural project of recent times and discusses the relationship between politics and architecture in the context of trauma.
Read it at: http://architecturemps.com/
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University of Westminster Department of English, Linguistics and Cultural Studies
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