Struggles in the Concrete
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Edited by:
Mark Crinson
About this book
What are Marxist architectural history and criticism? What methods do they employ, and what are their objects of critical analysis? These questions have been asked before, but now more than ever, they require reassessment in light of the continuous expansion and revision of Marxism in response to new global crises. Struggles in the Concrete: Architecture and the Marxist Tradition embarks on this endeavour. The eleven chapters not only reconsider classical Marxist categories and historical conjunctures, but also devise new critical frameworks for analysing architecture and capitalism today. The book reconsiders neglected figures like Marta Lonzi, Sérgio Ferro, and Anthony D. King, as well as re-engaging with major figures like Siegfried Kracauer, Manfredo Tafuri, and Stuart Hall.
- Tool for critical thinking in the current architectural discourse on global crises
- Contributions by renowned architectural historians and theorists: Claire Zimmerman, Katie Lloyd Thomas, Silke Kapp, Nicholas Thoburn, Onyeka Igwe
Author / Editor information
Luisa Lorenza Corna, University of the West of England, Bristol
Mark Crinson, Birkbeck, University of London
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Contents
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Introduction
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Chapter 1 Siegfried Kracauer, Architectural Employee
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Chapter 2 Down Below, Disqualification: How to Design the Formal Subsumption of Labour
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Chapter 3 ‘Capitalist Sorcery’ and the Daylight Auto Factory
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Chapter 4 Designing the Environment of Self-Management: Marxist Theory and Architectural Discourse in 1960s and 1970s Yugoslavia
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Chapter 5 ‘Brutalism as Class Architecture: The Case of Robin Hood Gardens’
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Chapter 6 Groundwork: Viollet-le-Duc, Marx and the Metabolic Rift
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Chapter 7 Architecture’s World History
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Chapter 8 The Myth of the Architect
174 - Section 4 Building the Racial Regime of Modernity
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Chapter 9 Policing the Crisis: Locating the Urban in British Cultural Studies
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Chapter 10 a so-called archive
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Biographies of Contributors
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