Wallenstein, Sven-Olov. creator Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture FORuM Project text bibliography nyu 2009 First edition monographic eng spa

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96 p. ill. (some col.), plans (some col.) 23 cm. "Biopolitics and the Emergence of Modern Architecture concerns the dissolution of the classical paradigm of architecture as imitative form in the context of the French Enlightenment and the emergence of a new logic of architecture based on a biopolitical process of subject formation. Following the publication of the English translation of Michel Foucault's The Birth of Biopolitics, Sven-Olov Wallenstein's book is the first to relate the biopolitical concept specifically to architecture. It concludes with a pictorial essay on the development of a building type that epitomizes this new architectural logic - the modern hospital."--BOOK JACKET. The notion of biopolitics and the emergence of man -- A digression on Giorgio Agamben and biopolitics -- The end of Vitruvianism and the restructuring of the architectural treatise -- The hospital as laboratory -- Docile and resistant bodies -- Notes -- A pictorial essay on the development of modern hospital architecture. Sven-Olov Wallenstein. Includes bibliographical references (p. 43-48). Architecture Philosophy Hospital architecture Architecture Political aspects NA2500 W345 2009 724 9781568987859 2008036411 pucpr 031110 20191030210750.0 eng