The Architecture of Neoliberalism pursues an uncompromising critique of the neoliberal turn in contemporary architecture. This book reveals how a self-styled parametric and post-critical architecture serves mechanisms of control and compliance while promoting itself; at the same time; as progressive. Spencers incisive analysis of the architecture and writings of figures such as Zaha Hadid; Patrik Schumacher; Rem Koolhaas; and Greg Lynn shows them to be in thrall to the same notions of liberty as are propounded in neoliberal thought. Analysing architectural projects in the fields of education; consumption and labour; The Architecture of Neoliberalism examines the part played by contemporary architecture in refashioning human subjects into the compliant figures - student-entrepreneurs; citizen-consumers and team-workers - requisite to the universal implementation of a form of existence devoted to market imperatives.
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