Title & Author:

The political unconscious of architecture : re-opening Jameson's narrative / edited by Nadir Lahiji.

Publication:

Farnham : Ashgate, 2011.

Description:

xi, 334 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Series:

Ashgate studies in architecture series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgments; Introduction -- Ban-lieues -- The Architecture of Money: Jameson, Abstraction and Form -- The Master's House -- The Stolen Hope: Reading Jameson's Critique of Tafuri -- Designing a Second Modernity? -- May Mo(u)rn: A Site-Writing -- Allegories of Late Capitalism: Main Street and Wall Street on the Map of the Global Village -- Rethinking City Planning and Utopianism -- Fredric Jameson and Critical Architecture -- Reloading Ideology Critique of Architecture.
A Photography Not 'Quite Right': Fredric Jameson's discussion of architectural photography -- The Architectural Parallax -- Botanizing the Bonaventura: Base and Superstructure in Jamesonian Architectural Theory -- Jameson, Tafuri, Lefebvre -- Index.

Summary:

Bringing together a team of leading scholars this book critically examines the important contribution made by eminent cultural and literary critic Fredric Jameson. This book breaks new ground in architectural criticism and offers insights into the interrelationships between politics, culture, space, and architecture. Fredric Jameson himself provides an afterword.

ISBN:

9781409426394 (hbk.)
1409426394 (hbk.)
9781409426400
1409426408

Subject:

Jameson, Fredric.
Architecture and society.
Architecture Political aspects.
Architecture et société.
Arkitektur och samhälle.
Arkitektur politiska aspekter.
Arkitektur teori, filosofi.

Added entries:

Lahiji, Nadir, 1948-
Ashgate studies in architecture series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 274975
Call No.: BIB 208952
Status: Available