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