Architecture and Capitalism

1845 to the Present

Peggy Deamer, Peggy Deamer

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781135049546
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Architektur
• Subtopic: Architekturgeschichte

Architecture and Capitalism tells a story of the relationship between the economy and architectural design. Eleven historians each discuss in brand new essays the time period they know best, looking at cultural and economic issues, which in light of current economic crises you will find have dealt with diverse but surprisingly familiar economic issues. Told through case studies, the narrative begins in the mid-nineteenth century and ends with 2011, with introductions by Editor Peggy Deamer to pull the main themes together so that you can see how other architects in different times and in different countries have dealt with similar economic conditions. By focussing on what previous architects experienced, you have the opportunity to avoid repeating the past.

With new essays by Pier Vittorio Aureli, Ellen Dunham-Jones, Keller Easterling, Lauren Kogod, Robert Hewison, Joanna Merwood-Salisbury, Robin Schuldenfrei, Deborah Gans, Simon Sadler, Nathan Rich, and Micahel Sorkin.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Notes on contributors
• Timeline
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1 Straight lines or curved? The Victorian values of John Ruskin and Henry Cole
• 2 The first Chicago school and the ideology of the skyscraper
• 3 The display window as educator: the German Werkbund and cultural economy
• 4 Capital dwelling: industrial capitalism, financial crisis, and the Bauhaus's Haus am Horn
• 5 Big work: Le Corbusier and capitalism
• 6 The varieties of capitalist experience
• 7 Manfredo Tafuri, Archizoom, Superstudio, and the critique of architectural ideology
• 8 Irrational exuberance: Rem Koolhaas and the 1990s
• 9 Globally integrated/locally fractured: the extraordinary development of Gurgaon, India
• 10 Spectacular failure: the architecture of late capitalism at the Millennium Dome
• Coda: liberal
• Afterword: architecture without capitalism
• Index