Governing by Design: Architecture, Economy, and Politics in the Twentieth Century: 13 (Culture Politics & the Built Environment) - Softcover

Book 2 of 20: Culture Politics & the Built Environment

Aggregate

 
9780822961789: Governing by Design: Architecture, Economy, and Politics in the Twentieth Century: 13 (Culture Politics & the Built Environment)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0822961784 ISBN 13: 9780822961789
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012

Synopsis

Governing by Design offers a unique perspective on twentieth-century architectural history. It disputes the primacy placed on individuals in the design and planning process and instead looks to the larger influences of politics, culture, economics, and globalization to uncover the roots of how our built environment evolves. In these chapters, historians offer their analysis on design as a vehicle for power and as a mediator of social currents. Power is defined through a variety of forms: modernization, obsolescence, technology, capital, ergonomics, biopolitics, and others. The chapters explore the diffusion of power through the establishment of norms and networks that frame human conduct, action, identity, and design. They follow design as it functions through the body, in the home, and at the state and international level. Overall, Aggregate views the intersection of architecture with the human need for what Foucault termed \u201cgovernmentality\u201d―societal rules, structures, repetition, and protocols―as a way to provide security and tame risk. Here, the conjunction of power and the power of design reinforces governmentality and infuses a sense of social permanence despite the exceedingly fluid nature of societies and the disintegration of cultural memory in the modern era.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

Aggregate (Architectural History Collaborative) is a group of ten scholars who five years ago commenced a collaborative discussion on the topics and the methods of architectural history. In workshops and in a formal colloquium, the members of Aggregate pr

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0822961784
ISBN 13 
9780822961789
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
300