ABSTRACT

The material and cultural world in which we now live perhaps represents the end of a process created out of the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. The battles fought over class, ideology and language are represented most clearly in the explosion of new building types during the Century of Revolutions.
Lavishly illustrated with photographs, drawings, maps and plans, Buildings and Power analyses architectural form, function and space to explore the reproduction and the subversion of power in the modern city.

part I|38 pages

Some Underlying Ideas

chapter Chapter 1|26 pages

The shape of the argument

chapter Chapter 2|10 pages

Why can we use buildings?

part II|129 pages

Buildings and People

chapter Chapter 3|54 pages

Formation

chapter Chapter 4|51 pages

Re-formation

chapter Chapter 5|11 pages

Cleanliness is next to godliness

chapter Chapter 6|11 pages

Re-creation

part III|76 pages

Buildings and Knowledge

chapter Chapter 7|42 pages

Visible knowledge

chapter Chapter 8|16 pages

Ephemeral knowledge

chapter Chapter 9|16 pages

Invisible knowledge

part IV|72 pages

Buildings and Things

chapter Chapter 10|51 pages

Production

chapter Chapter 11|17 pages

Exchange

part V|2 pages

Concluding Remarks