Title: Biopolitics and the emergence of modern architecture /
Authors: Wallenstein, Sven-Olov.; Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture.; FORuM Project.
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press : Buell Center/FORuM Project,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Architecture Philosophy; Architecture Political aspects.; Hospital architecture.
Abstract: "Biopolitics and the Emergence of Modern Architecture concerns the dissolution of the classical paradigm of architecture as imitative form in the context of the French Enlightenment and the emergence of a new logic of architecture based on a biopolitical process of subject formation. Following the publication of the English translation of Michel Foucault's The Birth of Biopolitics, Sven-Olov Wallenstein's book is the first to relate the biopolitical concept specifically to architecture. It concludes with a pictorial essay on the development of a building type that epitomizes this new architectural logic - the modern hospital."--Jacket.
Contents: The notion of biopolitics and the emergence of man -- A digression on Giorgio Agamben and biopolitics -- The end of Vitruvianism and the restructuring of the architectural treatise -- The hospital as laboratory -- Docile and resistant bodies -- Notes -- A pictorial essay on the development of modern hospital architecture.