The University of Nonstop Society: Campus Planning, Lounge Space, and Incessant Productivity

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Architecture and Culture Pub Date : 2020-08-19 DOI:10.1080/20507828.2020.1766300

Samuel Austin, A. Sharr

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Abstract

Abstract The University of Birmingham, UK, has been at the forefront of the last decade’s marketization of higher education in England. It has invested massively in its estate, and we examine the ideologies at work in its new masterplan and architecture. We account for the campus’s history. We then review the idea of lounge space – around which it has been reconfigured – and focus on three projects: The Alan Walters Building, a new Library, and the so-called Green Heart. We examine the ideological outlook of the campus and its new architecture to draw conclusions about the ideas of contemporary society and economy that they represent. The trajectory of its masterplanning and architecture inscribe a shift from a postwar liberal view of higher education to a contemporary marketized one under the economic, social and cultural condition characterized as neoliberalism. It now constitutes what we call the university of nonstop society.

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不间断社会的大学:校园规划、休闲空间和不间断的生产力

摘要英国伯明翰大学在过去十年中一直处于英国高等教育市场化的前沿。它在其房地产上进行了大量投资，我们在其新的总体规划和建筑中审视了正在发挥作用的意识形态。我们记述了校园的历史。然后，我们回顾了休息室的想法——围绕休息室进行了重新配置——并重点关注三个项目：艾伦·沃尔特斯大楼、一个新图书馆和所谓的绿心。我们考察了校园及其新建筑的思想观，以得出它们所代表的当代社会和经济思想的结论。其总体规划和建筑的轨迹标志着在以新自由主义为特征的经济、社会和文化条件下，从战后的自由主义高等教育观向当代市场化高等教育观的转变。它现在构成了我们所说的不间断社会的大学。

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