Building power : architecture and surveillance in Victorian America / Anna Vemer Andrzejewski

Object Details

Contents: Introduction -- Discipline -- Efficiency -- Hierarchy -- Fellowship -- Conclusion
Summary: "Building Power examines the ways in which concerns about surveillance informed the design and organization of important building types in the United States between the mid-nineteenth century and World War I. Beginning with settings such as prisons, that were specifically planned around surveillance, Anna Vemer Andrzejewski shows how surveillance also affected the design and use of various buildings and environments, including post offices, factories, offices, houses, and camp meetings. Working with great dexterity from case studies as well as scholarly sources, she argues that surveillance not only motivated a range of common buildings but was also a defining practice of modernism."--BOOK JACKET.

Topic: Space (Architecture)--Social aspects--History; Architecture--Human factors--History; Social control--History