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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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| Published: |
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, economi |
| 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 cult |