Offering an excellent entry point into the remarkable work of Michel Foucault, this
book provides a focused overture suitable for architects, designers, urban designers, students of architectural design and related
histories and theories.
Michel Foucault has had a significant impact on various aspects of architecture and its critical discourse. This book focuses on a number of subject areas, historical and theoretical issues addressed by Foucault that have been relevant for architectural knowledge, its history and its practice.
Contents: Part 1: Introduction Part 2: On Knowledge, Human Sciences and Architecture 1. The Demise of Resemblances and the Rise of Representation 2. The Archaeology of Human Sciences 3. Discursive Formations, Statements and the Episteme 4. Dispersions, Objects and Decentring 5. The Archaeology
of Architectural Knowledge Part 3: On Spaces of Confinement and Enclosure
6. The Great Confinement 7. The Asylum 8. The Clinic 9. The Prison 10. The Gaze, Dispositifs and Diagrams Part 4: Power, Self and the Polis 11. Flesh and Civilisation 12. Sex and Sexuality as Cultural Constructs 13. The Technology of Confession 14. The Care and the Self 15. Biopower, Society and Architecture Part 5: Aesthetic, Space and Architecture 16. On Different Spaces - Heterotopia 17. Space, Knowledge and Power 18. The Labyrinth and the Surface 19. Making 'Visible', Being 'Seeable' 20. The Art of Spacing Part 6: Conclusion.
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