Power and Architecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Power and Architecture write by Michael Minkenberg. This book was released on 2014-06-01. Power and Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Capital cities have been the seat of political power and central stage for their state’s political conflicts and rituals throughout the ages. In the modern era, they provide symbols for and confer meaning to the state, thereby contributing to the “invention” of the nation. Capitals capture the imagination of natives, visitors and outsiders alike, yet also express the outcomes of power struggles within the political systems in which they operate. This volume addresses the reciprocal relationships between identity, regime formation, urban planning, and public architecture in the Western world. It examines the role of urban design and architecture in expressing (or hiding) ideological beliefs and political agenda. Case studies include “old” capitals such as Rome, Vienna, Berlin and Warsaw; “new” ones such as Washington DC, Ottawa, Canberra, Ankara, Bonn, and Brasília; and the “European” capital Brussels. Each case reflects the authors’ different disciplinary backgrounds in architecture, history, political science, and urban studies, demonstrating the value of an interdisciplinary approach to studying cities.
The Edifice Complex
The Edifice Complex - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Edifice Complex write by Deyan Sudjic. This book was released on 2006-11-28. The Edifice Complex available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A provocative look at architecture-"exceptionally intelligent and original" (Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World) Deyan Sudjic-"probably the most influential figure in architecture you've never heard of" - argues that architecture, far from being auteur art, must be understood as a naked expression of power. From the grandiose projects of Stalin and Hitler to the "theme park" excess of today's presidential libraries, Sudjic goes behind the scenes of history's great manipulators of building propaganda-and exposes Rem Koolhaas, Frank Gehry, and other architects in a disturbing new light. This controversial book is essential reading for all those interested in the power of architecture-or the architecture of power. * A Washington Post Book World Best Book of the Year
Architecture, Ceremonial, and Power
Architecture, Ceremonial, and Power - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Architecture, Ceremonial, and Power write by Gülru Necipoğlu. This book was released on 1991. Architecture, Ceremonial, and Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Necipoglu demonstrates the palace's role as a vast stage for the enactment of a ceremonial that emphasized the sultan's absolute power and his aloofness from the outside world. In the absence of the monumentality, axiality, and rational geometric planning principles now usually associated with imperial architecture, the author's deciphering of the palace's iconography is all the more revealing.
Architecture, Power and National Identity
Architecture, Power and National Identity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Architecture, Power and National Identity write by Lawrence Vale. This book was released on 2014-05-01. Architecture, Power and National Identity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first edition of Architecture, Power, and National Identity, published in 1992, has become a classic, winning the prestigious Spiro Kostof award for the best book in architecture and urbanism. Lawrence Vale fully has fully updated the book, which focuses on the relationship between the design of national capitals across the world and the formation of national identity in modernity. Tied to this, it explains the role that architecture and planning play in the forceful assertion of state power. The book is truly international in scope, looking at capital cities in the United States, India, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Kuwait, Bangladesh, and Papua New Guinea.
The Edifice Complex
The Edifice Complex - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Edifice Complex write by Deyan Sudjic. This book was released on 2011-04-07. The Edifice Complex available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Edifice Complex explores the intimate and inextricable relationship between power, money and architecture in the twentieth century. How and why have presidents, prime ministers, mayors, millionaires and bishops come to share such a fascination with grand designs? From Blair to Mitterrand, from Hitler to Stalin to Saddam Hussein, architecture has become an end in itself, as well as a means to an end. This is a book of genuine timeliness, throwing new light on the motivations of the rich and powerful around the world - and on the ways they seek to affect us.
