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Architecture has always been a decisive manifestation of power. This volume brings an attempt to question and reflect on the relationship between power and architecture from three philosophical perspectives: materialistic, phenomenological and post-structuralist.
List of contents
Part 1 A Materialistic Perspective 1. The Spatialization of Power 2. Architecture, Power, Embodiment 3. Architecture After Utopia: The Times of the Historical "Project" 4. Power and the Architectural Unconscious Part 2 A Phenomenological Perspective 5. Spatialising Design: Architecture in the Age of Technological Capitalism – Power, Verticality, and the Street 6. A Phenomenological Sketch of an Architectural Work and the Question of Power 7. Architecture, Phenomenology and Power: A Problematic Synthesis Part 3 A Post-Structuralist Perspective 8. The Architecture of the Counter-Measure 9. Micropolitics and Architecture 10. Phantasmagoria, Architecture and the Capitalist Enjoyment 11. Postmodern Aesthetics and Neoliberal Politics: A Relationship Between Ornament and Crime? 12. Architecture Builds Power: Ending Domination, Practicing Life-Making, Finding Response-Ability 13. On Power, Capitalism and Architecture
About the author
Mateja Kurir is a philosopher and researcher from Slovenia. She obtained a BA and PhD in philosophy at the University of Ljubljana. Her topics of interest within philosophy are architecture and art. She published Arhitektura moderne in das Unheimliche: Heidegger, Freud in Le Corbusier (2018). She received the Plečnik’s Medal in 2022 in the field of architectural theory, criticism and publication as the editor of O oblasti v arhitekturi (On Power in Architecture) and in 2024 as the co-editor of Garden and Metaphor: Essays on the Essence of the Garden. Currently, she collaborates with different academic, research and art institutions. Previously, Mateja Kurir was a visiting researcher at the Department of Architecture, KU Leuven (2015), and postdoc researcher at the University of Rijeka (2017).
Summary
Architecture has always been a decisive manifestation of power. This volume brings an attempt to question and reflect on the relationship between power and architecture from three philosophical perspectives: materialistic, phenomenological and post-structuralist.
