Architecture and Control.

Intro -- Architecture and Control -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Architectural Pre-script -- Part 1: Surface Phenomena of the Broad Present -- 1 Informatic Brutalism -- 2 Embodied Time: Chronotope Formations in Works by Julius von Bismarck, Yayoi Kusama, Olafur Eliasson, and Walter de Maria -- 3 The Uncanny of Surveillance: Architectures of Hyperactive Incapacity in Nikolaus Geyrhalter's Abendland and Falk Richter's Unter Eis -- 4 Sights/Sites of Surveillance: Architecture and Mise-en-Scène in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Skyfall -- Part 2: Contested Sites -- 5 Probing the Terrain: Architectures of Control and Uncertainty in the Occupied Palestinian Territories -- 6 The Hungry Eyes: The Anxious Topographies of Enver Hoxha's Bunker Program in Albania -- 7 Artistic Explorations of Securitised Architecture and Urban Space -- 8 The Ellstorp Lot: An Undefined Urban Landscape -- Part 3: Control and Resistance -- 9 City of Control: José Padilha and the Policing of Rio de Janeiro in Ônibus 174 (Bus 174), and Tropa de Elite (Elite Squad) -- 10 Movement and Stasis: Sophie Calle, a Cartographer of Surveillance Landscapes -- 11 Advertising Architecture and Containers: The Hidden World of Logistics and Spectacular Architecture -- 12 The Limits of Place: Thinking a Politics without Beginnings -- Critical Postscript: "Space" Today? -- Index.

Architecture and Control addresses the urgent question residing at the intersection of architectural and cultural theory: how can the interplay between designed structures and practices of control foster an emergence of the unforeseen and the uncontrolled in post-2000 architectures and infrastructures?.

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