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Author:   Mateja Kurir
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
ISBN:  

9781032717579

ISBN 10:   1032717572
Pages:   234
Publication Date:   22 May 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Part 1 A Materialistic Perspective 1. The Spatialization of Power 2. Architecture, Power, Embodiment 3. Architecture After Utopia: The Times of the Historical ""Project"" 4. Power and the Architectural Unconscious Part 2 A Phenomenological Perspective 5. Spatialising Design: Architecture in the Age of Technological Capitalism – Power, Verticality, and the Street 6. A Phenomenological Sketch of an Architectural Work and the Question of Power 7. Architecture, Phenomenology and Power: A Problematic Synthesis Part 3 A Post-Structuralist Perspective 8. The Architecture of the Counter-Measure 9. Micropolitics and Architecture 10. Phantasmagoria, Architecture and the Capitalist Enjoyment 11. Postmodern Aesthetics and Neoliberal Politics: A Relationship Between Ornament and Crime? 12. Architecture Builds Power: Ending Domination, Practicing Life-Making, Finding Response-Ability 13. On Power, Capitalism and Architecture

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Mateja Kurir is a philosopher and researcher from Slovenia. She obtained a BA and PhD in philosophy at the University of Ljubljana. Her topics of interest within philosophy are architecture and art. She published Arhitektura moderne in das Unheimliche: Heidegger, Freud in Le Corbusier (2018). She received the Plečnik’s Medal in 2022 in the field of architectural theory, criticism and publication as the editor of O oblasti v arhitekturi (On Power in Architecture) and in 2024 as the co-editor of Garden and Metaphor: Essays on the Essence of the Garden. Currently, she collaborates with different academic, research and art institutions. Previously, Mateja Kurir was a visiting researcher at the Department of Architecture, KU Leuven (2015), and postdoc researcher at the University of Rijeka (2017).

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