Against Architecture

by Franco La Cecla ; translated from the Italian by Mairin O'Mahony

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Author(s)

Franco La Cecla

Publication

Oakland ; San Fransisco : PM Press : The Green Arcade, 2012

Scope

120 Pages, illustrated, 19 cm.

ISBN

9781604864069

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Hollier approaches Bataille through his criticism of architecture. Bataille stressed the authoritarian potential of monuments: their builders often sought to mould human beings according to a fixed plan. He did not, however, repudiate architecture altogether but felt its rigid character needed to be balanced by the unformed and often violent side of human personality.

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Keywords

critical aesthetics , public space , urban planning , counter culture , architects , city , architecture theory

Location

Cabinet 15 - 5: Architectuur en Kunst

Extra themes

Body and Space, Residents and their built environment

Remarks

first published in 2008