Governing by Design

Aggregate (Architectural History Collaborative) is a group of ten scholars who five years ago commenced a collaborative discussion on the topics and the methods of architectural history. In workshops and in a formal colloquium, the members of Aggregate presented research and debated their disciplinary aims and concerns. While its membership remains housed within institutions of architecture and art history, the group commitment is to enriching architectural history by engaging with other fields and disciplines.

出版者:University of Pittsburgh Press

作者:Aggregate

页数:300

出版时间:2012-4-28

价格:USD 35.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780822961789

图书标签:经济政治建筑史建筑Architecture+History

Governing by Design offers a unique perspective on twentieth-century architectural history. It disputes the primacy placed on individuals in the design and planning process and instead looks to the larger influences of politics, culture, economics, and globalization to uncover the roots of how our built environment evolves.

In these chapters, historians offer their analysis on design as a vehicle for power and as a mediator of social currents. Power is defined through a variety of forms: modernization, obsolescence, technology, capital, ergonomics, biopolitics, and others. The chapters explore the diffusion of power through the establishment of norms and networks that frame human conduct, action, identity, and design. They follow design as it functions through the body, in the home, and at the state and international level.

Overall, Aggregate views the intersection of architecture with the human need for what Foucault termed “governmentality”—societal rules, structures, repetition, and protocols—as a way to provide security and tame risk. Here, the conjunction of power and the power of design reinforces governmentality and infuses a sense of social permanence despite the exceedingly fluid nature of societies and the disintegration of cultural memory in the modern era.

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建筑如何介入公共领域的各个方面，简介里有一点容易产生歧义，在这本书里，设计不是权力的表现，而是权力自身，是福科所谓的规训机制的自我揭示，从中可以看到Aggregate 的突破建筑学边界，分享历史写作权的巨大野心和潜力。

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建筑如何介入公共领域的各个方面，简介里有一点容易产生歧义，在这本书里，设计不是权力的表现，而是权力自身，是福科所谓的规训机制的自我揭示，从中可以看到Aggregate 的突破建筑学边界，分享历史写作权的巨大野心和潜力。

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