Title: Building Change
Description: "Building Change provides a vision of a revitalized role for architecture as a critical cultural and spatial practice. It discusses the dynamic between power and building and lays out the spatial strategies those in power use to manipulate and control the physical world. These include segregation, marginalization, construction of hierarchies and the spatial transformations of mechanisms such as colonialism and globalization. The book goes on to investigate the shifting relationships among power, space and architecture in a world where a number of subjected people are reasserting their political and cultural agency. Lisa Findley argues that architecture, as a primary participant in the production of space, has an important role to play in supporting these changes. This question is how, within the scope of the design and making of buildings, can this be done?" "To explore this question, the book describes and analyzes four recent building projects embedded in complex and diverse historical, political, cultural and spatial circumstances: the Tjibaou Cultural Centre in New Caledonia; the Uluru-Kata Tjuta Cultural Centre in Australia; The Museum of Struggle in South Africa; and the Southern Poverty Law Center in the US."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Architecture, Architecture and society, Modern Architecture, Political aspects, Political aspects of Architecture, Social change, Architecture, modern, 20th century, Architecture, modern, 21st century, Architecture and state, Architecture et société, Aspect politique, Développement social, Urban & Land Use Planning, Space (Architecture)
Time periods: 20th century, 21st century