5 Codes  -  Igmade

Architecture, Paranoia and Risk in Times of Terror

KORTE INHOUD

When the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers collapsed into a heap of rubble and ash, the United States government created the Department of Homeland Security. Its primary task is to keep the terrorist threat in permanent view. To do this, it developed a five-stage warning system based on the colors green, blue, yellow, orange, and red: 5 codes.
The hypnotic character of this system prompted the editors of this book to conceive a history of architecture based on these 5 codes. For the fifth anniversary of Septe...
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2006 Uitgever: Birkhäuser Basel 299 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 3764375981 ISBN-13: 9783764375980