1st Edition
On Power in Architecture From a Materialistic, Phenomenological, and Post-Structuralist Perspective
Part 1 A Materialistic Perspective
1. The Spatialization of Power
Sven-Olov Wallenstein
2. Architecture, Power, Embodiment
An Interview with Hilde Heynen
3. Architecture After Utopia: The Times of the Historical "Project"
Teresa Stoppani
4. Power and the Architectural Unconscious
Mladen Dolar
Part 2 A Phenomenological Perspective
5. Spatialising Design: Architecture in the Age of Technological Capitalism – Power, Verticality, and the Street
Jeff Malpas
6. A Phenomenological Sketch of an Architectural Work and the Question of Power
Dean Komel
7. Architecture, Phenomenology and Power: A Problematic Synthesis
Luka Skansi
Part 3 A Post-Structuralist Perspective
8. The Architecture of the Counter-Measure
Andrew Benjamin and Gerard Reinmuth
9. Micropolitics and Architecture
Andrew Ballantyne
10. Phantasmagoria, Architecture and the Capitalist Enjoyment
Nadir Lahiji
11. Postmodern Aesthetics and Neoliberal Politics: A Relationship Between Ornament and Crime?
Robert Pfaller
12. Architecture Builds Power: Ending Domination, Practicing Life-Making, Finding Response-Ability
Elke Krasny
13. On Power, Capitalism and Architecture
An Interview with Douglas Spencer
Biography
Mateja Kurir is a philosopher and researcher from Slovenia. She obtained a BA and PhD in philosophy at the University of Ljubljana. Her topics of interest within philosophy are architecture and art. She published Arhitektura moderne in das Unheimliche: Heidegger, Freud in Le Corbusier (2018). She received the Plečnik’s Medal in 2022 in the field of architectural theory, criticism and publication as the editor of O oblasti v arhitekturi (On Power in Architecture) and in 2024 as the co-editor of Garden and Metaphor: Essays on the Essence of the Garden. Currently, she collaborates with different academic, research and art institutions. Previously, Mateja Kurir was a visiting researcher at the Department of Architecture, KU Leuven (2015), and postdoc researcher at the University of Rijeka (2017).
