<strong>Biopolitics and the Emergence of Modern Architecture</strong> concerns the dissolutionof the classical paradigm of architecture as imitative form in the... » 

Biopolitics and the Emergence of Modern Architecture concerns the dissolutionof the classical paradigm of architecture as imitative form in the context ofthe French Enlightenment and analyzes the emergence of a new logic ofarchitecture based on a biopolitical process of subject formation. Wallensteindraws especially on the late work of Michel Foucault for his argument anddistinguishes Foucaults theory of biopolitics from that of Giorgio Agamben.Published shortly after the release of the first English translation ofFoucaults The Birth of Biopolitics this is the first volume that specificallyrelates the biopolitical concept to architecture. The book concludes with apictorial essay on the development over the last two centuries of the modernhospital a building type that epitomizes the unfolding of this newarchitectural logic. «