Data Centers

About

Questions of privacy, borders, and nationhood are increasingly shaping the way we think about all things digital. Data Centers brings together essays and photographic documentation that analyze recent and ongoing developments. Taking Switzerland as an example, the book takes a look at the country’s data centers, law firms, corporations, and government institutions that are involved in the creation, maintenance, and regulation of digital infrastructures. Beneath the official storyline—Switzerland’s moderate climate, political stability, and relatively clean energy mix—the book uncovers a much more varied and sometimes contradictory set of narratives. (Text @ Lars Müller Publishers)

Info

Edited by Monika Dommann, Hannes Rickli, Max Stadler, in collaboration with Collegium Helveticum
With photographs by Andrea Helbling, Marc Latzel
With contributions by Scherwin Bajka, Silvia Berger Ziauddin, Sascha Deboni, Monika Dommann, Kijan Espahangizi, Lena Kaufmann, Moritz Mähr, Ioana Marinica, Fatih Öz, Hannes Rickli, Giorgio Scherrer, Renate Schubert, Max Stadler, Andrés Villa-Torres, Emil Zopfi and photographic works by Yann Mingard and Roland Schneider
19 × 26 cm
344 pages, 125 illustrations
Paperback
2020, 978-3-03778-645-1, English

Awards

Most Beautiful Books in the World, bronze medal
Most beautiful Swiss Book 2020
Most beautiful German Book 2020