New book - On Power in Architecture - is out!
Architecture has always been a decisive manifestation of power. This volume represents an attempt to question and reflect on the relationship between power and architecture from three philosophical perspectives: materialistic, phenomenological and post-structuralist.
Philosophers, architectural theorists and historians – Andrew Benjamin, Andrew Ballantyne, Mladen Dolar, Hilde Heynen, nadir lahiji, Jeff Malpas, Dean Komel, Elke Krasny, Robert Pfaller, Professor Gerard Reinmuth, Luka Skansi, Douglas Spencer, Teresa Stoppani and Sven-Olov Wallenstein present in this book their reflections in original essays and interviews.
This collection opens an interdisciplinary investigation that aims to reflect on architecture and its interconnectedness with power within philosophy and cultural theory at large while presenting these concepts using practical examples from the built environment.
The contributions open a variety of architectural questions, one of the central among them being the impact of neoliberal capitalism on architecture. Architecture, with its implications on the complex contemporary political and social reality, is severely changing our space and, more globally, our environment. A reflection on the multilayered relation between architecture and power has never been as topical as it is today.
I hope now critical and curious minds will take the book into their hands and reflect on power and architecture!
A big thank you goes to the 14 contributors of this volume, the publisher Routledge and their very supporting collegues, the Slovenian publishers Maska and Društvo Igor Zabel and to many more, who made this project possible since its start with the symposiums in Ljubljana in 2017. Thank you!
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