Transparency and obfuscation : politics and architecture in the work of Foster & Partners
This dissertation examines the obfuscatory potential of transparency in the work of architectural practice Foster & Partners. Transparency, as a narrative of Western culture, has been used unthinkingly and uncritically by architects to equate clarity with rationality, accessibility and democracy...
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Cardiff University
2010
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.585032 |