On Power in Architecture – Book Launch in London
You are cordially invited to the launch of the English-language edition of the book On Power in Architecture (Routledge, 2024) in London, which will feature a discussion between the editor Mateja Kurir and contributing authors Elke Krasny and Teresa Stoppani.
Date: Wednesday, 5 February 2025, 18:00-20:00 (GMT)
Venue: AA Bookshop, 33 Bedford Square, London
Elke Krasny is a feminist cultural theorist, curator, and professor of art and education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Teresa Stoppani is a professor of architecture and the director of the architecture and interior design department at Norwich University of the Arts and a lecturer at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. Mateja Kurir is a philosopher and researcher from Ljubljana.
About the book
Architecture has always been a decisive manifestation of power. The book On Power in Architecture reflects on the relationship between power and architecture from different philosophical perspectives – materialistic, phenomenological, and post-structuralist – while drawing on concrete architectural examples.
The volume features essays and interviews by the following fourteen renowned philosophers, architectural theorists and historians: Andrew Ballantyne, Andrew Benjamin, Mladen Dolar, Hilde Heynen, Nadir Lahiji, Jeff Malpas, Dean Komel, Elke Krasny, Robert Pfaller, Gerard Reinmuth, Luka Skansi, Douglas Spencer, Teresa Stoppani, Sven-Olov Wallenstein.
The authors’ contributions were presented for the first time at the symposium series On Power in Architecture conceived by Mateja Kurir and organized by the Igor Zabel Association between 2017 and 2019 at the Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana. The original Slovene-language edition of the book was published in 2022 by Maska Publishing House and the Igor Zabel Association. Mateja Kurir received the 2022 Plečnik Medal in the field of architectural theory, criticism, and professional journalism for the book.
The event is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory, and Riko.