The Edifice Complex
The architecture of power
$44.52
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
9 June 2011
Summary
‘As compelling a read as a popular novel … funny, acidic, penetrating and provocative’ Norman Foster
The Edifice Complex explores the intimate and inextricable relationship between power, money and architecture in the twentieth century. How and why have presidents, prime ministers, mayors, millionaires and bishops come to share such a fascination with grand designs? From Blair to Mitterrand, from Hitler to Stalin to Saddam Hussein, architecture has become an end in itself, as well as …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241952771 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241952778 |
| Author: | Deyan Sudjic |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 9 June 2011 |
| Weight: | 326g |
| Dimensions: | 181mm x 112mm x 36mm |
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Critics Review
Astonishing … a thrilling and passionately indignant trawl through vanity’s most polluted depths
Astonishing … a thrilling and passionately indignant trawl through vanity’s most polluted depths – Jonathan Meades * Times *
Punchily written … deftly amusing … a closely argued, brilliantly marshalled, important book – Tom Rosenthal * Daily Mail *
Full of fascinating fact and smart observation … clever, stimulating and thoughtful – Stephen Bayley * Observer *
Essential reading for anyone who cares about the physical world around them – Amanda Levete * Independent *
As compelling a read as a popular novel … it is as though the worlds of academe and the gossip column collide … funny, acidic, penetrating and provocative – Norman Foster * Royal Academy Magazine *
About The Author
Deyan Sudjic
Deyan Sudjic is Director of the Design Museum. He was born in London and studied architecture in Edinburgh. He has worked as a critic for the Observer and The Sunday Times, as the editor of Domus in Milan, as the director of the Venice Architecture Biennale, and as a curator in Glasgow, Istanbul and Copenhagen. He is the author of B is for Bauhaus, The Language of Things, and The Edifice Complex.
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