The Architecture of Neoliberalism
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The Architecture of Neoliberalism

How Contemporary Architecture Became an Instrument of Control and Compliance

Douglas Spencer

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The Architecture of Neoliberalism

How Contemporary Architecture Became an Instrument of Control and Compliance

Douglas Spencer

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The Architecture of Neoliberalism pursues an uncompromising critique of the neoliberal turn in contemporary architecture. This book reveals how a self-styled parametric and post-critical architecture serves mechanisms of control and compliance while promoting itself, at the same time, as progressive. Spencer's incisive analysis of the architecture and writings of figures such as Zaha Hadid, Patrik Schumacher, Rem Koolhaas, and Greg Lynn shows them to be in thrall to the same notions of liberty as are propounded in neoliberal thought.
Analysing architectural projects in the fields of education, consumption and labour, The Architecture of Neoliberalism examines the part played by contemporary architecture in refashioning human subjects into the compliant figures - student-entrepreneurs, citizen-consumers and team-workers - requisite to the universal implementation of a form of existence devoted to market imperatives.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2016
ISBN
9781472581549
Edition
1
Topic
Architektur
Subtopic
Architekturkritik
e 
Architecture 
of 
Neoliberalism
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construction 
of 
new 
relationships 
between 
the 
subject 
and 
its 
environment 
was 
supposed 
to 
promise 
the 
experience 
of 
liberation. 
In 
eïŹ€ect, 
and 
sometimes 
by 
design, 
though, 
the 
new 
environmental 
spacing 
of 
the 
subject 
had 
a 
good 
deal 
in 
common 
with 
the 
tenets 
and 
agendas 
of 
neoliberalism. 
It 
has 
also 
come 
to 
constitute 
a 
certain 
doxa 
through 
which 
architectural 
culture 
has, 
of 
late, 
staked 
its 
claims 
to 
being 
progressive.

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