Urbanization is a system of power and knowledge, and today’s city functions through the expansive material infrastructures of the urban order. In The Urban Apparatus, Reinhold Martin analyzes urbanization and the contemporary city in aesthetic, socioeconomic, and mediapolitical terms. He argues that understanding the city as infrastructure reveals urbanization to be a way of imparting fun…
Architectural postmodernism had a significant impact on the broader development of postmodern thought: Utopia’s Ghost is a critical reconsideration of their relationship. Combining discourse analysis, historical reconstruction, and close readings of buildings, projects, and texts from the 1970s and 1980s, Reinhold Martin argues that retheorizing postmodern architecture gives us new insigh…
Um dos mais brilhantes críticos de sua geração, Reinhold Martin debruça-se sobre o pós-modernismo na arquitetura e analisa suas consequências, com reflexos ainda reconhecíveis na atuação de arquitetos contemporâneos. Tida como uma ruptura em relação ao modernismo, o pós-modernismo teria apostado num certo ecletismo formal e na rejeição do universal. A análise de Martin, contudo,…