Architectures of Security - Design, Control, Mobility

This book examines the relationship between architecture, security, and technology, focusing on the way these factors mutually constitute a "ferocious" architecture. This is an architecture, aesthetic and/or design that is violent, forcing the performances and practices of sovereign power and neoliberalism.

List of contents

1. Benjamin Muller and Can E. Mutlu, Introduction: Architecture and Security
Part I: Design, and Security
2. Natalie Rowe, View as Narrative: The Built Environment as a Social Model for Individuals with Dementia
3. Can E. Mutlu, Aesthetics of Security: (Re)designing the Sandy Hook School Building
4. Mahdi Tourage, Curated Memory: Notes on Toronto's Agha Khan Museum
Part II: Control and Security
5. Adam Nowek, An Architecture of Control: Spatial and Digital Methods of Social Sorting in the Dutch Built Environment
6. Miguel de Larrinaga, The Spaces of Teargas and Contentious Politics
7. Leopold Lambert, The Politics of the Bulldozer
8. Thomas N. Cooke, Security, Circulation and Noise in Pearson International Airport
Part III: Border Security and Mobility
9. Jennifer Mustapha, Border security legislation and the construction of uncertain spaces: the case of Bill C-23
10. Benjamin Muller, iBorders: Beautiful and Ferocious Architecture at the Canada/US Border
11. Daniela Johannes, Transborder Immigrant Tool: Re-structuring U.S.-Mexico Border Assemblages
12. Afterword by Ronald Rael or Eyal Weizman - TBC

Contributors Notes

Glossary of terms

About the author

Benjamin J. Muller is Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, King's University College. Can E. Mutlu is Associate Professor at Arcadia University.

Summary

This book examines the relationship between architecture, security, and technology, focusing on the way these factors mutually constitute a “ferocious” architecture. This is an architecture, aesthetic and/or design that is violent, forcing the performances and practices of sovereign power and neoliberalism.

Product details

• Assisted by: Benjamin J. Muller (Editor), Muller Benjamin J. (Editor), Can E. Mutlu (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.11.2024
• EAN: 9781786612229
• ISBN: 978-1-78661-222-9
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 445 g
• Illustrations: 1 BW Illustration
• Series: Geopolitical Bodies, Material Worlds
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Architectural structure & design, ARCHITECTURE / Security Design, Warfare & defence, Human Geography, Security & fire alarm systems, Architectural structure and design, Security and fire alarm systems