{"product_id":"city-in-the-cloud-data-on-the-ground-the-architecture-of-data","title":"City in the Cloud – Data on the Ground: The Architecture of Data","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this book\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eData feels weightless. It is not. Behind the cloud sits an enormous physical apparatus—lithium pulled out of the Atacama, thousands of kilometres of undersea cable, and a fast-multiplying population of data centres with an appetite for power and water that is beginning to reshape the places that host them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished alongside the exhibition at the Architekturmuseum der TUM in Munich, \u003cem\u003eCity in the Cloud – Data on the Ground\u003c\/em\u003e maps this apparatus and its costs. The contributors are drawn from architecture, media studies, technology, art and political theory, and the volume is organised in three registers—elemental, spatial and temporal—that follow data from extraction through building to archive and erasure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eKey features\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublished to accompany the exhibition at the Architekturmuseum der TUM, Munich\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePhoto essays by Giulia Bruno and Catherine Hyland, including lithium mining in the Atacama Desert\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJames Bridle, Trevor Paglen, Niklas Maak, Mél Hogan, Marija Marić and Marina Otero Verzier among the contributors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLarge format, thread sewn, around 180 illustrations in full colour\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhat you'll discover\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe colonial roots of global communication, traced through submarine cable routes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow the data centre acquired its iconography, and what that architecture conceals\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExtraction and resistance in the so-called green transition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForgetting treated as a feature of the archive rather than a failure of it\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAbout the editors\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCara Hähl-Pfeifer, Damjan Kokalevski and Andres Lepik are based at the Architekturmuseum der TUM, where Lepik is director and professor of architectural history and curatorial practice at the Technical University of Munich.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDimensions: 230 × 300 mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePages: 208\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLanguage: English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eISBN: 9783966800389\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublisher: ArchiTangle\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublication date: October 2025\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003ePerfect for\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eArchitects and researchers working on infrastructure and energy, readers interested in the material politics of technology, and anyone who has wondered where the cloud actually is.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ArchiTangle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48987933704417,"sku":"9783966800389","price":126.2,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1116\/0464\/files\/9783966809887.jpg?v=1787798090","url":"https:\/\/bookshopbyuro.com\/products\/city-in-the-cloud-data-on-the-ground-the-architecture-of-data","provider":"Bookshop by Uro","version":"1.0","type":"link"}