Critique of Architecture offers a renewed and radical theorisation of the relations between capital and architecture. It explicates the theoretical gymnastics through which architecture legitimates its services to neoliberalism, examines the discipline’s production of platforms for happily compliant consumers, and challenges its entrepreneurial self-image. Critique of Architecture also addresses the discourse of architectural autonomy, analyses the post-political turns of contemporary architecture theory, and reckons with the legacies and limitations of critical theory.
Douglas Spencer is Pickard Chilton Professor and Director of Graduate Education at Architecture at Iowa State University. He is the author of The Architecture of Neoliberalism (2016), Critique of Architecture (2020), and has written for Radical Philosophy, Log, e-flux, New Geographies, Volume, Journal of Architecture, Avery Review, and contributed to collections including Architecture Against the Post-Political (2014), This Thing Called Theory (2016), Architecture and Feminisms (2017), Landscape and Agency (2017) and Architectural Affects After Deleuze and Guattari (2020).
The author will be joined by Eleni Axioti, Marianela D’Aprile, Will Orr and Ricardo Ruivo to discuss the book, its arguments, and their own perspectives on the issues it engages with.
General Info