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Buildings and power / Thomas A. Markus..

By: Markus, Thomas A.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London. New York : Routledge, 1993Description: xx, 343 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.ISBN: 0415076641; 041507665X (pbk.).Subject(s): Architecture, Modern -- HistoryDDC classification: 724
Contents:
Part I: Some underlying ideas -- The shape of the argument -- Why can we use buildings? -- Part II: Buildings and People -- Introduction -- Formation -- Re-formation -- Cleanliness is next to godliness -- Re-creation -- Part III: Buildings and Knowledge -- Introduction -- Visible knowledge -- Ephemeral knowledge -- Invisible knowledge -- Part IV: Buildings and Things -- Introduction -- Production -- Exchange -- Part V: Concluding remarks.
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General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 724 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00046831
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The material and cultural world in which we now live perhaps represents the end of a process created out of the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. The battles fought over class, ideology and language are represented most clearly in the explosion of new building types during the Century of Revolutions.
Lavishly illustrated with photographs, drawings, maps and plans, Buildings and Power analyses architectural form, function and space to explore the reproduction and the subversion of power in the modern city.

Bibliography: (pages 322-333) and index.

Part I: Some underlying ideas -- The shape of the argument -- Why can we use buildings? -- Part II: Buildings and People -- Introduction -- Formation -- Re-formation -- Cleanliness is next to godliness -- Re-creation -- Part III: Buildings and Knowledge -- Introduction -- Visible knowledge -- Ephemeral knowledge -- Invisible knowledge -- Part IV: Buildings and Things -- Introduction -- Production -- Exchange -- Part V: Concluding remarks.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction
  • Part I Some Underlying Ideas
  • 1 The Shape of the Argument
  • 2 Why Can We Use Buildings?
  • Part II Buildings and People
  • 3 Formation
  • 4 Re-Formation
  • 5 Cleanliness is next to Godliness
  • 6 Re-Creation
  • Part III Buildings and Knowledge
  • 7 Visible Knowledge
  • 8 Emphmeral Knowledge
  • 9 Invisible Knowledge
  • Part IV Buildings and Things
  • 10 Production
  • 11 Exchange
  • Part V Concluding Remarks
  • Notes
  • Biography
  • Knowledge