TY - GEN AU - Markus, Thomas A. TI - Buildings and power : freedom and control in the origin of modern building types SN - 978041507665X U1 - 720.1 PY - 1993/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - N1 - List of figures x Acknowledgements xviii Introduction xix Part I Some Underlying Ideas 1 1 The shape of the argument 3 Things and words 3 A case 5 Buildings and their texts as social practice 8 Subject 10 Tools of analysis 11 Social relations as meanings 21 Types of discourse 26 2 Why can we use buildings? 29 Dream places and real places 29 Form and function 33 What is a type? 37 Part ll Buildings and People 39 Introduction 39 3 Formation 41 'An incomparable machine - a vast moral steam engine' 41 Precursors 42 The pastoral colony 46 The sabbatarian fortress of virtue 48 Setting the machine into motion 53 The formation of the infant character 69 Experiments in remote places 75 The construction of poverty and childhood by law 85 Republican virtue 91 Innocent nature and disciplined bodies 91 The calculus of morality 92 Invisible engines 93 4 Re-formation 95 The great confinement 95 Age as pathology 97 The unproductive poor 98 The sad 106 The bad 118 The mad 130 The new workhouse 141 5 Cleanliness is next to godliness 146 6 Re-creation 157 Part Ill Buildings and Knowledge 169 Introduction 169 7 Visible knowledge 171 Objects in space 171 The storehouse of knowledge 172 The cabinet of curiosities 185 Nature reordered 203 Politics and pictures 207 Classification and power 208 8 Ephemeral knowledge 213 An attack on the senses 213 Panoramas and dioramas 213 Exhibitions 219 9Invisible knowledge 229 Dramatic fragments 229 The lecture theatre 229 Rude mechanicals 240 Part IV Buildings and Things 245 Introduction 245 10 Production 249 Living space as workspace 249 The early production complex 249 The factory system 261 The mill 263 The iron skeleton 271 Weaving in a 'studio' 274 A 'fireproof machine' 276 Working and living 284 Perfect cities of production 286 11 Exchange 300 Part V Concluding Remarks 317 Notes 319 Bibliography 322 Index 334 ER -