Foucault for architects / Gordana Fontana-Giusti

By:

Fontana-Giusti, Gord

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Series: Thinkers for Architects ; 9Publication details: Routledge, 2013. Oxon :Description: xii, 181 pISBN:

9780415693318

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

720.1 FON-S

Contents:

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

Summary: "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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Library, SPAB I-1	Non Fiction	720.1 FON-S (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		007089

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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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