The Edifice Complex
The architecture of power
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Beschrijving
From Hitler's vast Chancellery to Saddam Hussein's Mother of all Battles mosque, from Olympic stadiums to Donald Trump's excesses, the author examines the murky relationship between buildings, money and politics, revealing the power of architecture - and the architecture of power.
Astonishing ... a thrilling and passionately indignant trawl through vanity's most polluted depths
Punchily written ... deftly amusing ... a closely argued, brilliantly marshalled, important book
Full of fascinating fact and smart observation ... clever, stimulating and thoughtful
Essential reading for anyone who cares about the physical world around them
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
Deyan Sudjic
is Director of the Design Museum. He was born in London, and studied architecture in Edinburgh. He has worked as a critic for the
Observer
and
The Sunday Times
, as the editor of
Domus
in Milan, as the director of the Venice Architecture Biennale, and as a curator in Glasgow, Istanbul and Copenhagen. He is the author of
B is for Bauhaus, The Language of Things
and
The Edifice Complex
.