Foucault for architects /

Fontana-Giusti, Gord

Foucault for architects / Gordana Fontana-Giusti - Oxon : Routledge, 2013. - xii, 181 p. - Thinkers for Architects ; 9 .

Introduction --
Part 1: Positioning--
1.1 Context --
1.2 Resisting Boundaries --
1.3 Architecture Unspoken--
Part 2: Archaeology --
2.1 Human Sciences, Knowledge and Architecture--
2.2 Archaeology as Difference--
Part 3: Enclosure --
3.1 Madness--
3.2 The Asylum --
3.3 The Clinic --
3.4 The Prison--
Part 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--
Part 5: Spatiality/Aesthetics--
5.1 Spatiality and its Themes--
5.2 Avant-Garde and the Language of Space --
5.3 Deleuzian Century--
5.4 Ad Finem Further Reading Bibliography


"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."--Provided by publisher.

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Architecture--Philosophy
Foucault, Michel
PHILOSOPHY / General
ARCHITECTURE / Criticism
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