The Architecture of Neoliberalism: How Contemporary Architecture Became an Instrument of Control and ComplianceThe Architecture of Neoliberalism pursues an uncompromising critique of the neoliberal turn in contemporary architecture. This book reveals how a self-styled parametric and post-critical architecture serves mechanisms of control and compliance while promoting itself, at the same time, as progressive. Spencer's incisive analysis of the architecture and writings of figures such as Zaha Hadid, Patrik Schumacher, Rem Koolhaas, and Greg Lynn shows them to be in thrall to the same notions of liberty as are propounded in neoliberal thought. Analysing architectural projects in the fields of education, consumption and labour, The Architecture of Neoliberalism examines the part played by contemporary architecture in refashioning human subjects into the compliant figures - student-entrepreneurs, citizen-consumers and team-workers - requisite to the universal implementation of a form of existence devoted to market imperatives. |
Contents
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| 11 | |
Chapter 2 The Spatial Constitution of
the Neoliberal Subject
| 25 |
From May 68 to
the Real of the Market
| 47 |
Architecture
Work and Neoliberalism
| 73 |
Neoliberal Architectures of Culture
Commerce and Education
| 111 |
Architecture
and the Patterning of Experience
| 139 |
The Necessity of Critique
| 161 |
Notes
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