The Edifice Complex: How the Rich and Powerful Shape the World
Language: English
Published by The Penguin Press, 2005
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Seasoned architecture critic, Deyvan Sudjic examines the intimate relationship linking buildings, power, money, and politics in this reinterpretation of the role of buildings in our lives. Architecture, he argues, is not primarily an art, but an expression of power over the landscape that will last far longer than we do. Through profiles of renowned architects such as Rem Koolhaas and Mies van der Rohe, Sudjic shows the ways that these buildings, besides being instruments of nation building, are expressions of ego and bids for immortality. This is a wide-angle look at a range of buildings both impressively effective and disastrously ill-conceived.
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- Title
- The Edifice Complex: How the Rich and Powerful Shape the World
- Author
- Deyan Sudjic
- Publisher
- The Penguin Press
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1594200688
- ISBN 13
- 9781594200687
- Seller catalogs
- ARCHITECTURE-URBANISM
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