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Power and architecture are fundamental to the question of how contemporary society and architecture work together. Since power lacks a comprehensive logic, coherence, and instrumentalization capability, the question refers both to the autonomous powers of the architectural forms and to a set of exte...
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Lars Müller Publishers ; Casa da Arquitectura,
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| Publisher Address: | Zurich, Switzerland : Matosinhos, Portugal : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 1st edition. |
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| Summary: |
Power and architecture are fundamental to the question of how contemporary society and architecture work together. Since power lacks a comprehensive logic, coherence, and instrumentalization capability, the question refers both to the autonomous powers of the architectural forms and to a set of external powers represented through architecture. The presented series of projects based on current and extreme syntheses of comprehensive and complex world-views enables mapping a network of powers that align, intersect, inflect, and diverge from each other: collective power, ordaining power, economic power, technological power, ritual power, cultural power, media power, and domestic power. The issue of counter power is then discussed against this background. Through eight essays by contributors, along with images, drawings, and documents, the book renders visible a set of entities, informal conventions, stakeholders, and means involved in the creation of architecture; that is, the dynamics of the collective that ceaselessly tests the architectural composition of the common world. |
| Item Description: | Published on the occasion of the exhibition Power Architecture, Casa da Arquitectura, Matosinhos, November 17, 2017-March 18, 2018. |
| Carrier Form: | 259 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, plans ; 25 cm |
| ISBN: |
9783037785461 3037785462 9789899679061 9899679062 |
| Index Number: | NA2543 |
| CLC: | TU-05 |
| Call Number: | TU-05/P887-1 |
| Contents: |
Power architecture at the Casa da Arquitetura / Power/Architecture / Mapping Power/Architecture / Architecture and collective power / Architecture and regulatory power / Technological power. The architecture of redundancy / Economic power. Against cynicism / Domestic power. A new agency / The power of culture in the culture of power / Media power. Novelty: a dispassionate story / Ritual power. Now I lay me down to eat / Visual dossier. Collective power -- Regulatory power -- Technologlical power -- Economic power -- Domestic power -- Cultural power -- Media power -- Ritual power. |