Towering Invisibilities: A Cultural-Theoretical Reading of the Eiffel Tower and the One World Trade Center
Dados Bibliográficos
| AUTOR(ES) | |
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| AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) | Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen |
| ANO | 2019 |
| TIPO | Artigo |
| PERIÓDICO | Qualitative Inquiry |
| ISSN | 1077-8004 |
| E-ISSN | 1552-7565 |
| EDITORA | Annual Reviews (United States) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1077800418790297 |
| ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
| MD5 |
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Resumo
This article explores forms of visuality in architecture in which symbolic and functional values interlink by considering two visually striking and deeply symbolic landmarks that tower over their respective cities at the same time as their impact is related to the invisible wireless communication they facilitate. It contrasts cultural-theoretical responses to the Eiffel Tower (1889) with readings of the One World Trade Center (2014). In this way, we contour a theoretical framework to grasp the compounded forms of signification these towers embody and address the latent and invisible signification at work by turning to the work of the French philosophers Roland Barthes (1915-1980) and Jean-Francois Lyotard (1924-1998).