The Edifice Complex: The architecture of power

ISBN-13: 9780241952771 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 464 str.

Deyan Sudjic

Opis

What makes the rich and powerful want to leave their mark on the world? This timely book explores the intimate relationship between buildings, power, money and politics.

Recenzje

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O autorze

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.