Rongo Univesity Library

Includes bibliographical references.

The notion of biopolitics and the emergence of man -- A digression on Giorgio Agamben and biopolitics -- The end of Vitruvianism and the restructuring of the architectural treatise -- The hospital as laboratory -- Docile and resistant bodies -- Notes -- A pictorial essay on the development of modern hospital architecture.

"Biopolitics and the Emergence of Modern Architecture concerns the dissolution of the classical paradigm of architecture as imitative form in the context of the French Enlightenment and the emergence of a new logic of architecture based on a biopolitical process of subject formation. Following the publication of the English translation of Michel Foucault's The Birth of Biopolitics, Sven-Olov Wallenstein's book is the first to relate the biopolitical concept specifically to architecture. It concludes with a pictorial essay on the development of a building type that epitomizes this new architectural logic - the modern hospital."--BOOK JACKET.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.