Tower to Tower: Gigantism in Architecture and Digital Culture

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	Prologue: Scaffolding
	A Tale of Two Cities, A Tale of Two (and More) Towers
	Gigantism
	Vertical and Horizontal Gigantism
	Gigantic Dichotomies, Containers, and Leaks
	Tower to Tower
	Latent Gigantism
1 The Eiffel Tower
	Prologue: An Elevator Ride
	Going Up
	Montage as Method
	Seeing the Eiffel Tower See: Expanding Meaning
	Leaks, Crisis, and Gigantism
2 The Twin Towers
	Prologue: A Telephone Conversation on 9/11
	Scales of Impact
	The Twin Towers and the Intermingling of Vertical and Horizontal
	Challenging the View from Above
	Is Architecture in or above History?
	Towering, Falling
3 The One World Observatory
	Prologue: Gigantic Buildings
	The Sky’s the Limit
	One World Trade Center and the New Metropolitan Mainstream
	The Womb as Time Machine
	A Leaking Container
	New Visual Orders
	Temporal and Material Excess
4 The Ground Zero Site
	Prologue: Trump Tower
	The Fifth Leak
	Never Ever Modern
	Calculated Publics at the Edge of the Memorial Pools
	From Containment to Leaks
5 Into the Ground
	Prologue: The Earth Leaks
	Tower to Tower and Beyond
	Kool Chinese Twisted Twin Towers
	Telling Tales of Tech Giants
	Big Business beneath Manhattan
	Epilogue: The Bias Cut
Notes
Index