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Reflections on Architecture, Society and Politics brings together a series of thirteen interview-articles by Graham Cairns in collaboration with some of the most prominent polemic thinkers and critical practitioners from the fields of architecture and the social sciences, including Noam Chomsky, Peggy Deamer, Robert A.M. Stern, Daniel Libeskind and Kenneth Frampton. Each chapter explores the relationship between architecture and socio-political issues through discussion of architectural theories and projects, citing specific issues and themes that have led to, and will shape, the various aspects of the current and future built environment. Ranging from Chomsky’s examination of the US–Mexico border as the architecture of oppression to Robert A.M. Stern’s defence of projects for the Disney corporation and George W. Bush, this book places politics at the center of issues within contemporary architecture.
Foreword: Murray Fraser
Introduction: Graham Cairns
Chapter 0. Alberto Perez Gomez.
Ethics, Emotion, and Aesthetics: Architecture After the Crisis of Modern Science
Chapter 1.
Noam Chomsky. Hidden Power and Built Form – The Politics Behind the Architecture.
Chapter 2.
Robert A. M. Stern. Dream Culture and the Politics of the Past – Today
Chapter 3.
Peggy Deamer. Architecture and Capitalism – From Production to Product
Chapter 4.
Peter Nears.
Finance, Planning and Architecture UK – A Developer’s Perspective
Chapter 5.
Stephen Hodder. Politics, Society and the Public: The RIBA Reaching Beyond the Profession
Chapter 6.
Michael Sorkin. Driving on the Left: A View of the Street, the City and Architecture
Chapter 7.
Paul Goldberger. History and Modern Architecture in the Age of the Star
Chapter 8.
Clare Devine. The ‘Commissioning’ of Architecture and the Built Environment
Chapter 9.
Daniel Libeskind. Ground Zero – The Socio-Political Minefield of Symbolic Architecture
Chapter 10.
Steven Weir and Gareth Hepworth. Habitat for Humanity – Operating Outside the State and the Market
Chapter 11.
Kenneth Frampton. A Critical Architecture – Comments on Politics and Society
Chapter 12.
Jonathan Woetzel. Global Finance, Global Planning –China’s Urban Explosion Seen from the West
- Isbn: 9781472456083
- Title: Reflections on Architecture, Society and Politics: Social and Cultural Tectonics in the 21st Century
- Author: Graham Cairns
- Publisher: Routledge
- Project Year: 2016
- Language: English
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