Governing By Design Architecture Economy And Politics In The Twentieth Century Aggregate Author by Aggregate (author) 9780822961789, 0822961784 instant download after payment.

Governing by Design
offers a unique perspective on twentieth-century architectural history.
It disputes the primacy placed on individuals in the design and
planning process and instead looks to the larger influences of politics,
culture, economics, and globalization to uncover the roots of how our
built environment evolves.

In
these chapters, historians offer their analysis on design as a vehicle
for power and as a mediator of social currents. Power is defined through
a variety of forms: modernization, obsolescence, technology, capital,
ergonomics, biopolitics, and others. The chapters explore the diffusion
of power through the establishment of norms and networks that frame
human conduct, action, identity, and design. They follow design as it
functions through the body, in the home, and at the state and
international level.

Overall,
Aggregate views the intersection of architecture with the human need
for what Foucault termed “governmentality”—societal rules, structures,
repetition, and protocols—as a way to provide security and tame risk. 
Here, the conjunction of power and the power of design reinforces
governmentality and infuses a sense of social permanence despite the
exceedingly fluid nature of societies and the disintegration of cultural
memory in the modern era.