Biopolitics and the emergence of modern architecture / Sven-Olov Wallenstein

Author:: Wallenstein, Sven-Olov
Published:: New York : Princeton Architectural Press : Buell Center/FORuM Project, [2009]
Copyright Date:: ©2009
Edition:: 1st ed.
Physical Description:: 96 pages : illustrations (some color), plans (some color) ; 23 cm.

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Series:

FORuM project

Contents:

The notion of biopolitics and the emergence of man -- A digression on Giorgio Agamben and biopolitics -- The end of Vitruvianism and the restructuring of the architectural treatise -- The hospital as laboratory -- Docile and resistant bodies -- Notes -- A pictorial essay on the development of modern hospital architecture.

Subject(s):

Architecture—Philosophy
Architecture—Political aspects
Hospital architecture

ISBN:

9781568987859 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1568987854 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 43-48).

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