Struggles in the Concrete : Architecture and the Marxist Tradition / edited by Mark Crinson and Luisa Lorenza Corna.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Corna, Luisa Lorenza, editor.

Crinson, Mark, editor.

Series:

Bauwelt Fundamente ; Volume 178.

Bauwelt Fundamente Series ; Volume 178

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Political aspects--History.

Architecture.

Marxist criticism.

Communism and architecture--History.

Communism and architecture.

Electronic books.

Local Subjects:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Gutersloh : Bauverlag Birkha¨user, [2025]

Summary:

What are Marxist architectural history and criticism? What methods do they employ, and what are their objects of critical analysis? These questions have been asked before, but now more than ever, they require reassessment in light of the continuous expansion and revision of Marxism in response to new global crises. Struggles in the Concrete: Architecture and the Marxist Tradition embarks on this endeavour. The eleven chapters not only reconsider classical Marxist categories and historical conjunctures, but also devise new critical frameworks for analysing architecture and capitalism today. The book reconsiders neglected figures like Marta Lonzi, Sérgio Ferro, and Anthony D. King, as well as re-engaging with major figures like Siegfried Kracauer, Manfredo Tafuri, and Stuart Hall. Tool for critical thinking in the current architectural discourse on global crises Contributions by renowned architectural historians and theorists: Claire Zimmerman, Katie Lloyd Thomas, Silke Kapp, Nicholas Thoburn, Onyeka Igwe.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction

Section 1 Labour and its Histories

Chapter 1 Siegfried Kracauer, Architectural Employee

Chapter 2 Down Below, Disqualification: How to Design the Formal Subsumption of Labour

Chapter 3 'Capitalist Sorcery' and the Daylight Auto Factory

Section 2 Infrastructure and Environment

Chapter 4 Designing the Environment of Self-Management: Marxist Theory and Architectural Discourse in 1960s and 1970s Yugoslavia

Chapter 5 'Brutalism as Class Architecture: The Case of Robin Hood Gardens'

Chapter 6 Groundwork: Viollet-le-Duc, Marx and the Metabolic Rift

Section 3 Ideological Formations

Chapter 7 Architecture's World History

Chapter 8 The Myth of the Architect

Section 4 Building the Racial Regime of Modernity

Chapter 9 Policing the Crisis: Locating the Urban in British Cultural Studies

Chapter 10 a so-called archive

Biographies of Contributors

Picture Credits.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-0356-2894-7