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.
Director of the Design Museum, Deyan Sudjic was born in London of
Yugoslav parents. Former architecture critic for the Observer
and a visiting professor at the Royal College of Art. In Milan, 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 Edifice Complex,
the much-praised 100-Miles City
, the best-selling Architecture Pack
, and monographs on John Pawson, Ron Arad and Richard Rogers. He is
Director of the Design Museum in London.
