Description: Case studies revealing how contemporary architecture is shaped by the forces of 21st-century global capitalism
Brief description: Douglas Spencer teaches and writes on critical theories of architecture, landscape and urbanism. Author of The Architecture of Neoliberalism (Bloomsbury, 2016), he is also a regular contributor to Radical Philosophy and has written chapters for collections such as Architecture Against the Post-Political (2014), Landscape and Agency (2016) and This Thing Called Theory (2016). He has published numerous essays in journals such The Journal of Architecture, AD, AA Files, New Geographies, Volume and Praznine. He is currently Director of Graduate Education and Pickard Chilton Professor in Iowa State University's Department of Architecture.