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Buildings and Power - Freedom and Control in the Origin of Modern Building Types (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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Buildings and Power - Freedom and Control in the Origin of Modern Building Types (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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"Buildings and Power" shifts the focus of architectural debate from
the dominant themes of art and technology to an analysis of meaning
in terms of social relations. Buildings are primarily social
objects - their forms provide answers to questions we ask about
ourselves, questions of power, order, classification and function.
Everything about a building has social meaning - its form, function
and spatial structure are each capable of analysis. "Buildings and
Power" focuses on the emergence of new building types during the
critical period between the Enlightenment and the French and
Industrial Revolutions. The range is divided between those which
control relations between people directly - schools, institutions
of various kinds, buildings for cleaning and hygiene, clubs,
assembly rooms and hotels; those which reproduce knowledge -
museums, galleries, institutes; and those used for production and
exchange - mills, production utopias, markets, shops and exchanges.
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