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The Architecture of Neoliberalism: How Contemporary Architecture Became an Instrument of Control and Compliance

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Author
Douglas Spencer
The Architecture of Neoliberalism pursues an uncompromising critique of the neoliberal turn in contemporary architecture. This book reveals how a self-styled parametric and post-critical architecture serves mechanisms of control and compliance while promoting itself, at the same time, as progressive. Spencer's incisive analysis of the architecture and writings of figures such as Zaha Hadid, Patrik Schumacher, Rem Koolhaas, and Greg Lynn shows them to be in thrall to the same notions of liberty as are propounded in neoliberal thought. Analysing architectural projects in the fields of education, consumption and labour, The Architecture of Neoliberalism examines the part played by contemporary architecture in refashioning human subjects into the compliant figures - student-entrepreneurs, citizen-consumers and team-workers - requisite to the universal implementation of a form of existence devoted to market imperatives.
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      SKU
      9781350375901
      Published At
      21.09.2023
      Pages
      232
      EAN
      9781350375901
      Format
      Created At (custom)
      21.09.2023
      ISBN
      9781350375901

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