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The Capsular Civilization

Hardcover • 2005 • English

The Capsular Civilization: On the City in the Age of Fear (Reflect No. 3)

By de Cauter, Lieven

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About the book

Particularly since September 11, the War on Terrorism and the war in Iraq, it has been almost impossible to dissociate architecture from its social context. Add to this the massive influence of capitalism on architecture, disturbing demographic developments and associated political, social, and ecological catastrophes, and the result is a robotic snapshot of a society dominated by fear, exclusion and simulation. Lieven De Cauter, a leading theoretician on the subject of capsularisation, has work...Show more

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ISBN

9789056624071

Publisher

nai010 publishers

Published year

2005

Language

English

Original title

The Capsular Civilization

Format

Hardcover

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