THE FUTURE OF THE SKYSCRAPER

Engines of industry, expressions of ego or will, tall towers are nonetheless, when they pierce the shared skies, intensely public. W e may ask of them artistic questions: what do we make of these things we make? What do these forms mean? But also, because architect ure is forever tied to real life, we may ask of them questions of a political, economic and technological nature?as well as those, t ouching on the body and the mind and the soul, that we may simply call human. In this volume, Bruce Sterling describes four possible futures...[Read more]