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Building Power - Architecture and Surveillance in Victorian America (Hardcover)
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Building Power - Architecture and Surveillance in Victorian America (Hardcover)
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Building Power examines the ways in which concerns about
surveillance informed the design and organization of important
building types in the United States between the mid-nineteenth
century and World War I. Beginning with settings such as prisons,
which were specifically planned around surveillance, Anna Vemer
Andrzejewski shows how surveillance also affected the design and
use of various buildings and environments, including post offices,
factories, offices, houses, and camp meetings. Working with great
dexterity from case studies as well as scholarly sources, she
argues that surveillance not only motivated a range of common
buildings but was also a defining practice of modernism. This
wide-ranging study draws on fundamental concepts from Michel
Foucault, even as it revises and extends them. For Andrzejewski,
surveillance is any act of sustained, close observation of others
that is intended to transform behavior--of those under surveillance
as well as those who initiate it. This definition allows her to
illuminate the many ways in which those in positions of power have
attempted to influence the actions of others, whether to create and
enforce hierarchical boundaries between people, as in the
workplace, or to affirm bonds between like-minded individuals, as
at Victorian-era revivalist camp meetings. Thinking about
surveillance in these terms also allows Andrzejewski to consider
ways in which it has influenced diverse American spaces, ranging
from obvious settings relatively removed from daily life (like
penal institutions) to everyday spaces familiar to most Americans
(like middle-class houses). Moving across the era, as well as
across building types, she shows that as the goals andcontexts for
surveillance changed, so did its realization in the built
environment, resulting in a complicated landscape that influenced
both everyday life and the principles of modernism.
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