What People Want

Michael Shamiyeh and DOM Research Laboratory (Ed.) with articles from

GREG VAN ALSTYNE < JUAN PALOP-CASADO < HELMUT DUBIEL THOMAS DUSCHLBAUER < MANFRED FASSLER < GEORG FRANCK THOMAS FRANK < LOIS HECHENBLAIKNER < THOMAS HELD JEFFREY INABA < JOSÉ MIGUEL IRIBAS < ELLEN DUNHAM-JONES DENNIS KASPORI < CHRISTIAN KÜHN < LIANE LEFAIVRE HELÈNE LIPSTADT < MARCOS LUTYENS < BILL MOGGRIDGE < WALTER ÖTSCH < ROBERT PFALLER < DILLER + SCOFIDIO < ONATHAN SERGISON < MICHAEL SHAMIYEH < ALEXANDER TZONIS < MÅNS WRANGE

Populist tendencies in architecture are not new. Nevertheless, in the century just ended, two decisive factors enabled populism to assume far greater dimensions: on one hand, the market and its accompanying structural transformation or de-politicization of society and, on the other, the media, which nowadays not only interlink everything but also make possible a global transfer of information. Today, architects have become subject to the powers of free market and the accompanying tendency currently evident worldwide towards privatization or the abolition of government regulatory agencies and laws, and are being subjected to the conditions of the market economy in conforming their construction projects to a populist market consensus. This means that more than ever they are being called upon to try to achieve “what people want.” Some 30 internationally renowned experts from Europe, the US and Canada spent three days addressing and discussing this topic. Due to the interdisciplinary composition of the panels, it became possible to expand the understanding of the concept of populism as well as to arrive at conclusions relevant to the architectural profession. The book covers the conference

Editor: Michael Shamiyeh
Copy Editing: Raquel Macho
Design: Reklamebüro Linz/Austria

2005 Birkhäuser – Publishers for Architecture, P.O.Box 133, CH-4010 Basel, Switzerland
Part of Springer Science+Business Media
400 Pages
19,0cm x 22,5 cm

Printed in Germany
ISBN-10: 3-7643-7276-1
ISBN-13: 978-7643-7276-7

Price EUR 34,50