Description
Critique of Architecture offers a renewed and radical theorization of the relations between capital and architecture. It explicates the theoretical gymnastics through which architecture legitimates its services to neoliberalism, examines the discipline's production of platforms for happily compliant consumers, and challenges its entrepreneurial self-image. Critique of Architecture also addresses the discourse of autonomy, questioning its capacity to engage effectively with the terms and conditions of capitalism today, analyses the post-political turns of contemporary architecture theory, and reckons with the legacies and limitations of critical theory.
About the Author
Douglas Spencer, Associate Professor of Architecture, Iowa State University
Book Information
ISBN 9783035621631
Author Douglas Spencer
Format Paperback
Page Count 228
Imprint Birkhauser
Publisher Birkhauser
Weight(grams) 380g