Critique of Architecture: Essays on Theory, Autonomy, and Political Economy (Bauwelt Fundamente, #168)

by Douglas Spencer

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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.
  • ISBN10 3035621640
  • ISBN13 9783035621648
  • Publish Date 18 January 2021
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country CH
  • Imprint Birkhauser