The edifice complex
Subtitle: how the rich and powerful shape the world
By: Deyan Sudjic
Publisher: Penguin Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 403
ISBN-13: 9781594200687
Subjects: Public architecture; Architecture publique; Architektur; Öffentliches Gebäude; Pouvoir (Sciences sociales); Power (Social sciences)
Description: An analysis of the role played by the rich and powerful in architecture argues that architecture is an expression of authority rather than art, with examples from buildings commissioned by such figures as Hitler, Rockefeller, and Saddam Hussein.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-390) and index.
Table of contents: title: Why we build; title: The long march to the leader's desk; title: Landscapes of power; title: The word in stone; title: The architect who swept the floor; title: Inventing a nation; title: Identity in the age of uncertainty; title: The uses of marble; title: Ego unchained; title: A tomb at the drive-in; title: The uses of culture; title: High-rise syndrome; title: An incurable condition.