Critique of Architecture : : Essays on Theory, Autonomy, and Political Economy / / Douglas Spencer.

Critique of Architecture entwirft einen neuen und radikalen Theorieansatz über die Verbindung zwischen Architektur und Kapital. Das Buch legt die theoretische Akrobatik offen, mit der die Architektur ihre Dienste für den Neoliberalismus legitimiert, untersucht ihre Bereitstellung von Plattformen für...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
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Place / Publishing House:Basel : : Birkhäuser, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Bauwelt Fundamente ; 168
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Physical Description:1 online resource (228 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Section 1. Architecture, Deleuze and Neoliberalism
  • 1 Architectural Deleuzism: Neoliberal Space, Control and the ‘Univer-City’
  • 2 Habitats for homo economicus: Architecture, Design and the Environment of ‘Man’
  • 3 Personifying Capital: Architecture and the Image of Participation
  • Section 2. Autonomy: Architecture and the Politics of Depoliticization
  • 4 Less than Enough: A Critique of the Project of Autonomy
  • 5 The Limits of Limits: Schmitt, Aureli and the Geopolitical Ontology of the Island
  • 6 Out of the Loop: Architecture, Automation and Cognitive Disinvestment
  • 7 Architecture after California
  • Section 3. Reckoning with Theory
  • 8 Going to Ground: Agency, Design and the Problem of Bruno Latour
  • 9 Returns on the City: Detroit and the Design of Late Fordism
  • 10 Enjoy the Silence: On the Consolations of the Post- political
  • 11 Architecture’s Abode of Production: Beyond Base and Superstructure
  • 12 On Allegory, the Architectural Imagination and Radical Disillusionment: In Conversation with Miloš Kosec
  • Note on the Essays
  • Illustrations