The Architecture of Neoliberalism

The Architecture of Neoliberalism examines the alliance between dominant ideas and practices in contemporary architecture and neoliberal governance techniques. It shows how architectural theory and practice, abandoning criticality and openly advocating submission to the market, both spatializes mechanisms of social control and presents itself as "progressive." By thoroughly analyzing the writings and architectural practices of figures who have gained great fame and influence in the field of architecture, such as Zaha Hadid, Patrik Schumacher, Rem Koolhaas, and Greg Lynn Spencer, it reveals their common ground with neoliberal thought.

It also explains how these new architectural theories distort and use concepts borrowed from thinkers such as Deleuze, Guattari, and Bruno Latour. Investigating numerous architectural projects related to education, consumption, and working life, Spencer, drawing on Foucault's ideas, examines the role of contemporary architecture in the processes of neoliberalism's production of obedient subjectivity.