The first edition of "Architecture, Power, and National Identity", published in 1992, has become a classic, winning the prestigious Spiro Kostof award for the best book in architecture and urbanism. Lawrence Vale has fully updated the book, which focuses on the relationship between the design of national capitals across the world and the formation ...
This book shows how outlaw "spatial products" - resorts, information technology campuses, retail chains, golf courses, and ports - act as cunning pawns in global politics.In "Enduring Innocence", Keller Easterling tells the stories of outlaw "spatial products" - resorts, information technology campuses, retail chains, golf courses, ports, and ...
Building Change investigates the relationships between power, space and architecture in this time of rapid change. It discusses the dynamic between power and building and lays out the spatial strategies those in power use to manipulate and control the physical world. These include segregation, marginalization, colonialism and globalization. In the ...
Paul Hirst was one was one of the most original thinkers of his generation. This book is being published post-humously after his tragic death in 2003. Written with verve and lucidity, it is a scholarly account of the various ways in which space is configured by power, and in which space becomes a resource for power. Erudite and exciting, the book ...
A unique collection of contemporary writings, this book explores the politics involved in the making and experiencing of architecture and cities from a cross-cultural and global perspective Taking a broad view of the word 'politics', the essays address a range of questions, including: What is the relationship between politics and the making of ...
Biopolitics and the Emergence of Modern Architecture concerns the dissolution of the classical paradigm of architecture as imitative form in the context of the French Enlightenment, and analyzes the emergence of a new logic of architecture based on a biopolitical process of subject formation. Wallenstein draws especially on the late work of Michel ...
Describes different kinds of monuments from around the world while also explaining how and why they were built, how they are preserved, and their importance to one's memory.
An exploration of the relationship between people, power and architecture by examining how key political leaders in history have expressed their own personalities through buildings. A global survey, it ranges from the Taj Mahal to the White House, from Catherine the Great to Prince Charles.
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