1st Edition

Foucault for Architects

By Gordana Fontana-Giusti Copyright 2013
200 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

From the mid-1960s onwards Michel Foucault has had a significant impact on diverse aspects of culture, knowledge and arts including architecture and its critical discourse. The implications for architecture have been wide-ranging. His archaeological and genealogical approaches to knowledge have transformed architectural history and theory, while his attitude to arts and aesthetics led to a... Read more

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

 

Biography

Gordana Fontana-Giusti is an architect, theorist and professor of architecture at the University of Kent, UK. She has taught at the Architectural Association, London and conducted research at Central Saint Martins College, London. Fontana-Giusti is the co-author of Complete Works of Zaha Hadid 4.vols. (Thames and Hudson, 2004) and Scale: Imagination, Perception and Practice in Architecture (Routledge, 2011)