The Edifice Complex : The Architecture Of Power

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  • : $27.95 AUD
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
  • : 9780241952771
  • : July 2011
  • : July 2011
  • : 0.326
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  • : 181mm X 111mm X 32mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 19.95
  • : art supplies

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Description

"The Edifice Complex" explores the intimate and inextricable relationship between power, money and architecture in the twentieth century. How and why have presidents, prime ministers, mayors, millionaires and bishops come to share such a fascination with grand designs? From Blair to Mitterrand, from Hitler to Stalin to Saddam Hussein, architecture has become an end in itself, as well as a means to an end. This is a book of genuine timeliness, throwing new light on the motivations of the rich and powerful around the world - and on the ways they seek to affect us.

Reviews

Astonishing ... a thrilling and passionately indignant trawl through vanity's most polluted depths - Jonathan Meades Times

Punchily written ... deftly amusing ... a closely argued, brilliantly marshalled, important book - Tom Rosenthal Daily Mail

Full of fascinating fact and smart observation ... clever, stimulating and thoughtful - Stephen Bayley Observer

Essential reading for anyone who cares about the physical world around them - Amanda Levete Independent

As compelling a read as a popular novel ... it is as though the worlds of academe and the gossip column collide ... funny, acidic, penetrating and provocative - Norman Foster Royal Academy Magazine