Architecture and Control

Architecture and Control addresses the urgent question residing at the intersection of architectural and cultural theory: how can the interplay between designed structures and practices of control foster an emergence of the unforeseen and the uncontrolled in post-2000 architectures and infrastructures?

Annie Ring is Lecturer in German at University College, London. A cultural theorist, she writes on topics of complicity, surveillance and resistance in modern German and comparative culture. Her recent monograph, After the Stasi, is published by Bloomsbury. Henriette Steiner is Associate Professor at the Section for Landscape Architecture and Planning at the University of Copenhagen. Her research investigates the cultural role and meaning of architecture, cities and landscapes.Kristin Veel is Associate Professor in Modern Culture at the University of Copenhagen. She has published widely on the impact of information and communication technology on the contemporary cultural imagination, with a particularly interest in surveillance and archival technologies.