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OverviewHow architecture powered European energy politics in the postwar era and paved the way for today's dependency on coal, steel, and nuclear power. How architecture powered European energy politics in the postwar era and paved the way for today's dependency on coal, steel, and nuclear power. In this volume of the Critical Spatial Practice series, Dennis Pohl locates the origin of Europe's dependency on carbon and nuclear power in the postwar architectural designs and energy policies of the European Community. Since the 1950s, architects have proposed territorial, regional, and urban development plans that served the European political project. They collaborated with the European Coal and Steel Community in an effort to render the steel building industry as efficient as the car industry; they incorporated the ideas of infinite nuclear energy, as promoted by the European Atomic Energy Community, into their designs. This book demonstrates how architecture served the political economy of postwar Europe as a means of turning coal, steel, and radioactivity into tools of European governance. Architectural design enabled EU institutions to support social policies and worker housing within the coal and steel industry as well as to promote a new pan-European lifestyle based on nuclear energy. In other words, architecture powered Europe's larger infrastructural, economic, and cultural network. Pohl's work not only sheds light on how architecture has contributed to the carbonization of Europe, it also highlights the environmental issue, which challenges both architectural criticism and historiography in the era of the Anthropocene. Design by Zak Group Featuring artwork by Armin Linke Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dennis PohlPublisher: Sternberg Press Imprint: Sternberg Press Dimensions: Width: 10.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 15.10cm Weight: 0.247kg ISBN: 9781915609014ISBN 10: 1915609011 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 20 December 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationDennis Pohl is Postdoctoral Researcher at the TU Delft Data, Design and Society Group, and Research Coordinator at The New Open. His research focuses on the relationship between energy, politics, and architecture of the post-war era. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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