The Edifice Complex: The architecture of power - Softcover

Sudjic, Deyan

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9780141016726: The Edifice Complex: The architecture of power

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ISBN 10: 0141016728 ISBN 13: 9780141016726

Publisher: Penguin, 2006

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The Edifice Complex explores the intimate and inextricable relationship between power, money and architecture in the twentieth century. How and why have presidents, prime ministers, mayors, millionaires and bishops come to share such a fascination with grand designs? From Blair to Mitterrand, from Hitler to Stalin to Saddam Hussein, architecture has become an end in itself, as well as a means to an end. This is a book of genuine timeliness, throwing new light on the motivations of the rich and powerful around the world - and on the ways they seek to affect us.

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Review:

'Astonishing ... a thrilling and passionately indignant trawl through vanity’s most polluted depths' -- Jonathan Meades, Times

'Full of fascinating fact and smart observation ... clever, stimulating and thoughtful' -- Stephen Bayley, Observer

‘As compelling a read as a popular novel ... funny, acidic, penetrating and provocative' -- Norman Foster, Royal Academy Magazine

‘Essential reading for anyone who cares about the physical world around them' -- Amanda Levete, Independent

‘Punchily written ... deftly amusing ... a closely argued, brilliantly marshalled, important book' -- Tom Rosenthal, Daily Mail

About the Author:

Deyan Sudjic is Director of the Design Museum. He was born in London, and studied architecture in Edinburgh. He has worked as a critic for the Observer and The Sunday Times, as the editor of Domus in Milan, as the director of the Venice Architecture Biennale, and as a curator in Glasgow, Istanbul and Copenhagen. He is the author of B is for Bauhaus, The Language of Things and The Edifice Complex.

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