Architecture Lecture Series

Architecture Lecture Series

This series of lectures and reading seminars focuses on exploring the city as a sociological concept (critically engaging with early, classical essays on the culture of cities in cluding work by Simmel, Weber, Spengler, Park, Wirth, and Redfield). This exploration is then brought together with accounts of the neo- and post-liberal city, in order to problematise emerging forms of urban cultures and architecture and design as hegemonic and counter-hegemonic spatial practices.

Date

2014-2016

Language

English

Author

Günter Gassner

Keywords

Critical Theory

Spatial imaginaries

Spatial practices

Commodification

Aesthetics

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