The Architecture of Neoliberalism

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How Contemporary Architecture Became an Instrument of Control and Compliance

By Douglas Spencer

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The Architecture of Neoliberalism offers a rigorous critique of contemporary architecture's embrace of neoliberal values. Douglas Spencer examines how parametric and post-critical architectural styles support systems of control while presenting themselves as progressive. Through analysis of works by figures such as Zaha Hadid, Patrik Schumacher, Rem Koolhaas, and Greg Lynn, the book reveals architecture's role in shaping compliant subjects like student-entrepreneurs, citizen-consumers, and team-workers aligned with market imperatives.
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This book suits readers interested in the intersection of architecture, politics, and cultural theory, including academics, practitioners, and critically-minded students of arts and culture.

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The Architecture of Neoliberalism pursues an uncompromising critique of the neoliberal turn in contemporary architecture. This book reveals how a self-styled parametric and post-critical architecture serves mechanisms of control and compliance while promoting itself, at the same time, as progressive.

Spencer's incisive analysis of the architecture and writings of figures such as Zaha Hadid, Patrik Schumacher, Rem Koolhaas, and Greg Lynn shows them to be in thrall to the same notions of liberty as are propounded in neoliberal thought.

Analysing architectural projects in the fields of education, consumption and labour, The Architecture of Neoliberalism examines the part played by contemporary architecture in refashioning human subjects into the compliant figures—student-entrepreneurs, citizen-consumers and team-workers—requisite to the universal implementation of a form of existence devoted to market imperatives.

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Praised for its bold and incisive analysis, the book is described by the Los Angeles Review of Books as tracing neoliberalism’s intellectual lineage into contemporary architecture. The Journal of Architectural Education calls it a milestone in critique, essential for understanding architecture's political and social implications. Benjamin Noys highlights Spencer's work as a powerful deconstruction of architectural ideology that challenges the accepted neoliberal narrative.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781350375901

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 21 September 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Illustration: 30 B&W illus

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 400g

Pages: 232

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About the Author

Douglas Spencer teaches and writes on critical theories of architecture, landscape and urbanism. A regular contributor to Radical Philosophy, he has also written chapters for collections such as Architecture Against the Post-Political (2014), Landscape and Agency (2016) and This Thing Called Theory (2016). He has published numerous essays in journals such The Journal of Architecture, AD, AA Files, New Geographies, Volume and Praznine. He teaches at the AA’s Graduate School of Design at the Architectural Association and at the University of Westminster, London.