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Book Review – Icebergs, Zombies, and the Ultra Thin: Architecture and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century
The installation of Rodney Graham’s Spinning Chandelier, the $3.5 million replica of a French chandelier that sits under Vancouver’s Granville Bridge, has always struck me as a bizarrely literal embodiment of the geographer Neil Smith’s concept of the revanchist city
: a city where policy and the market work in collaboration to further exclude already marginalized groups. In a city where thousands struggle to afford housing that meets their needs, the Westbank-funded public art project feels like a giant (spinning) crystal middle finger.
My minor obsession with Graham’s sculpture meant that I was particularly exhilarated by the entire chapter that Matthew Soules dedicates to Vancouver House, the ‘starchitect’ tower associated with the Spinning Chandelier, in his new book