Barbarian Architecture
Thorstein Veblen’s Chicago
$66.35
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
7 May 2024
Summary
A richly visual architectural history and theory of modernity that reexamines Thorstein Veblen’s classic text The Theory of the Leisure Class through the lens of Chicago in the 1890s.
An important critic of modern culture, American economist Thorstein Veblen is best known for the concept of “conspicuous consumption,” the ostentatious and wasteful display of goods in the service of social status-a term he coined in his 1899 classic The Theory of the Leisure Class. In …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262547413 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262547414 |
| Author: | Joanna Merwood-Salisbury |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 7 May 2024 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 225mm x 140mm |
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Critics Review
“Barbarian Architecture, in short, is an outstanding contribution to the extensive Veblen literature.”
—Contributions to Political Economy
About The Author
Joanna Merwood-Salisbury
Joanna Merwood-Salisbury is Professor of Architecture at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She has held academic positions at Parsons School of Design, Bard College, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her publications include Design for the Crowd, After Taste, coedited with Kent Kleinman and Lois Weinthal, and Chicago 1890.
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