BUILDINGS AND POWER by Thomas A. Markus ( 9780415076647 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

BUILDINGS AND POWER
FREEDOM AND CONTROL IN THE ORIGIN OF MODERN BUILDING TYPES

By:

Thomas A. Markus

Format:

Hardback

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£220.00

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ISBN 10:

0415076641

ISBN 13:

9780415076647

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Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

30 September, 1993

Pages:

368

Description:

Aims to shift the focus of architectural debate from themes of art and technology to an analysis of social meanings. Building forms provide answers to questions of power, order, classification and function. This study covers the period from the Enlightenment to the French and Industrial Revolution.

Synopsis:

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.

Illustrations:

260 black & white illustrations, 148 black & white line drawings

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Imprint:

Routledge

Prizes:

Winner of Sir Banister Fletcher Prize of the Author's Club 1993

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