Barbarian Architecture: Thorstein Veblen's Chicago

by Joanna Merwood-Salisbury

A richly visual architectural history and theory of modernity that reexamines Thorstein Veblen's classic text The Theory of the Leisure Class through the lens of Chicago in the 1890s.

An important critic of modern culture, American economist Thorstein Veblen is best known for the concept of "conspicuous consumption," the ostentatious and wasteful display of goods in the service of social status--a term he coined in his 1899 classic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262547414
• ISBN13: 9780262547413
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.2" x 8.5"