Book description
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.
Deyan Sudjic was born in London of Yugoslav parents. He divides his time
between London, where he is architecture critic for the Observer and a
visiting professor at the Royal College of Art, and Milan, where for
many years he edited Domus, the international magazine of art,
architecture and design. He was Director of the Venice Architecture
Biennale in 2002 and is author of the much-praised 100-Miles City, the
best-selling Architecture Pack, and monographs on John Pawson, Ron Arad
and Richard Rogers.
