Sophie Hochhäusl, Torsten Lange, Ross Exo Adams, Daniel A. Barber, Aleksandr Bierig, Kenny Cupers, Isabelle Doucet, Jennifer Ferng, Sabine von Fischer, Kim Förster, Maroš Krivý, Andres Kurg, Ayala Levin, Ginger Nolan, Alla Vronskaya, “Architecture and the Environment,” Architectural Histories 6, 1 (2018).
... A history of an uneasy relationship between urban ‘environmentalism’ and capitalism could extend beyond Michel Foucault’s well-known investigation of neoliberalism as an environmental intervention. The late 19th-century argument that poor sanitary environments determined working class vice justified slum-clearance as well as the social democratic compromise around urban planning. Sustainability, born out of the critique of Fordism, informed the ‘greenwashed’ architecture of LEED certificates. And in the recent resilient urbanism, the very notion of politics has been ‘environmentalized’: the spectre of organicism has returned under the amorphous, emergent, and viridescent guises of parametricism, data-behaviourism, and smart cities. ...
(from my contribution titled “Urbanism, Organicism, and the History of Environments as Dispositifs”)
... A history of an uneasy relationship between urban ‘environmentalism’ and capitalism could extend beyond Michel Foucault’s well-known investigation of neoliberalism as an environmental intervention. The late 19th-century argument that poor sanitary environments determined working class vice justified slum-clearance as well as the social democratic compromise around urban planning. Sustainability, born out of the critique of Fordism, informed the ‘greenwashed’ architecture of LEED certificates. And in the recent resilient urbanism, the very notion of politics has been ‘environmentalized’: the spectre of organicism has returned under the amorphous, emergent, and viridescent guises of parametricism, data-behaviourism, and smart cities. ...
(from my contribution titled “Urbanism, Organicism, and the History of Environments as Dispositifs”)
