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Record Nr.

UNINA9910961809303321

Autore

Fontana-Giusti Gordana

Titolo

Foucault for architects / / Gordana Fontana-Giusti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-135-01008-0

0-203-74386-5

1-135-01009-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 p.)

Collana

Thinkers for architects

Classificazione

ARC000000ARC001000PHI000000

Disciplina

720.1

Soggetti

Architecture - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Positioning; 1.1 Context; 1.2 Resisting boundaries; 1.3 Architecture unspoken; 2 Archaeology; 2.1 Human sciences, knowledge and architecture; 2.2 Archaeology as difference; 3 Enclosure; 3.1 Madness; 3.2 The Asylum; 3.3 The Clinic; 3.4 The Prison; 4 Bodies; 4.1 The History of Sexuality; 4.2 Sexuality, knowledge and the structure of aesthetic experience; 4.3 Biopower; 4.4 Bodies, architecture and cities; 5 Spatiality / Aesthetics; 5.1 Spatiality and its themes

5.2 Avant-garde and the language of space5.3 Deleuzian century; 5.4 Ad finem; Further reading...; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"Offering an excellent entry point into the remarkable work of Michel Foucault, this book provides a focused overture suitable for architects, designers, urban designers, students of architectural design and related histories and theories. Michel Foucault has had a significant impact on various aspects of architecture and its critical discourse. This book focuses on a number of subject areas, historical and theoretical issues addressed by Foucault that have been relevant for architectural knowledge, its history and its practice. "--