Architecture Post Mortem: The Diastolic Architecture of Decline, Dystopia, and Death

By Charles David Bertolini, Simone Brott, Donald Kunze

Architecture Post Mortem surveys architecture's encounter with death, decline, and ruination following late capitalism. As the world moves closer to an economic abyss that many perceive to be the death of capital, contraction and crisis are no longer mere phases of normal market fluctuations, but rather the irruption of the unconscious of ideology itself. Post mortem is that historical moment wherein architecture's symbolic contract with capital is put on stage, naked to all. This collection includes essays by Kazi K. Ashraf, David Bertolini, Simone Brott, Peggy Deamer, Didem Ekici, Paul Emmons, Donald Kunze, Todd McGowan, Gevork Hartoonian, Nadir Lahiji, Erika Naginski, and Dennis Maher.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1409462226
• ISBN13: 9781409462224
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.8" x 9.7"