The Edifice Complex

The Edifice Complex

The architecture of power

Summary

The Edifice Complex explores the intimate and inextricable relationship between power, money and architecture in the twentieth century. How and why have presidents, prime ministers, mayors, millionaires and bishops come to share such a fascination with grand designs? From Blair to Mitterrand, from Hitler to Stalin to Saddam Hussein, architecture has become an end in itself, as well as a means to an end. This is a book of genuine timeliness, throwing new light on the motivations of the rich and powerful around the world - and on the ways they seek to affect us.

Reviews

  • Astonishing ... a thrilling and passionately indignant trawl through vanity's most polluted depths
    Jonathan Meades, Times

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Deyan Sudjic

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