Biopolitics and the emergence of modern architecture
By: Sven-Olov Wallenstein.
Series: FORuM Project
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781568987859
Subjects: Architecture -- Philosophy; Architecture -- Political aspects; Hospital architecture
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The notion of biopolitics and the emergence of man; title: A digression on Giorgio Agamben and biopolitics; title: The end of Vitruvianism and the restructuring of the architectural treatise; title: The hospital as laboratory; title: Docile and resistant bodies; title: Notes; title: A pictorial essay on the development of modern hospital architecture.