Gage, Mark Foster,

Designing social equality : architecture, aesthetics, and the perception of democracy / Mark Foster Gage. - viii, 131 pages ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The aesthetic turn -- The politics of the unknown -- Aesthetic distances defined -- From the critical to the speculative -- Axiomatic equality -- Hierarchy and the problem of the privleged observer -- Race, gender and the politics of omission -- Philosophy and the aesthetics of social engagement -- The equity of equidistance -- Strangely equal -- The invitation of curiosity -- From sustainability to dark ecology -- Revising practice and pedagogy -- The death of disciplinarity -- Beyond prattle.

9780815369752 (pbk.)


Architecture and society.
Equality.

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