Curriculum Vitae
Dr Douglas Cunningham Spencer
Associate Professor
Department of Architecture, College of Design, Iowa State University
EDUCATION
University of Westminster, PhD Architecture History and Theory, 2008-2012
Thames Valley University , MA Cultural Studies, 1992-1995
Sheffield City Polytechnic, BA (Hons) History of Art, Design and Film Studies (2.1), 1985-1988
Amersham College of Art and Design, National Arts Diploma, 1978-1981
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor with tenure and Director of Graduate Education, Department of Architecture, College of Design, Iowa State University, Department of Architecture, 2018 -
Director of PhD programme, University of Westminster, London, administrative position, 2016 to 2018
Lecturer in Architectural History and Theory, University of Westminster, London, permanent position, 2015 to 2018
Lecturer in Architectural History and Theory, Graduate School of the Architectural Association, London, 2007 to 2018, permanent position from 2009
Phd Supervisor, Royal College of Art, London, 2007 to 2018
Phd Supervisor, University of East London, 2013 to 2017
Phd Supervisor, Architectural Association, London, 2012 to 2017
Lecturer In Architectural History and Theory University of Westminster, London, 2008 to 2012, permanent position from 2009
Senior Lecturer in Architectural History and Theory, University of East London, 2007 to 2016, permanent position from 2008
Lecturer in Historical and Critical Studies Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, 2000-2008
Visiting Lecturer in Architecture and Art History, Middlesex University, London, 2006
Lecturer in Historical and Critical Studies, Amersham and Wycombe College, 1994 to 2000
BOOKS
Critique of Architecture: Essays on Theory, Autonomy and Political Economy, Basel: Bauwelt Fundamente/Birkhäuser, 2021.
The Architecture of Neoliberalism: How Architecture Became an Instrument of Control and Compliance, London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Critical Territories: From Academia to Praxis, Actar/List Lab, Barcelona, 2014 (with Eva Castro, Eduardo Rico and Alfredo Ramirez).
JOURNAL ARTICLES (SELECTED)
“Alienation and the Work of Architecture,”ARCH+ 251: The Office Issue, January, 2023 (forthcoming).
"Notes on Tafuri, Militancy, and Unionization,” co-authored with Marianela D’Aprile, Avery Review, February, 2022, https://www.averyreview.com/issues/56/notes-on-tafuri
“Critique of Spectacular Criticism,” Avery Review, November, 2019, https://mailchi.mp/607f8d6493c3/75bf2j6hn1-565735?e=71a978cbc4
“Island Life: Capitalism’s Eco Imaginary,” Log 47: Carbon Form, Fall/Winter 2019, 167-174.
“Returns on the City: Detroit and the Design of Late Fordism,” Harvard Design Magazine, No. 46, Fall/Winter 2018, No Sweat, http://www.harvarddesignmagazine.org/issues/46/returns-on-the-city-detroit-and-the-design-of-late-fordism
"Die Architektur des Neoliberalismus verleugnet die Arbeit,” ARCH + 231: The Property Issue – Von der Bodenfrage und neuen Gemeingütern, April, 2018, 130-135.
“Architecture After California,” e-flux architecture: positions, November 2017, https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/positions/151749/architecture-after-california/
“Out of the Loop: Architecture, Automation and Cognitive Disinvestment,” Volume 49: Automation, September, 2016, 7-10.
“The Limits of Limits: Schmitt, Aureli, and the Geopolitical Ontology of the Island,” New Geographies 8: Islands, 2016, 118-127.
"Nature is the Dummy: Circulations of the Metabolic,” New Geographies 6: Ungrounding Metabolism, 2014, 108-113.
“Architectural Deleuzism: Neoliberal Space, Control and the ‘Univer-City’,” Radical Philosophy 168, July/August, 2011, 9-21.
“Replicant Urbanism: The Architecture of Hadid’s Central Building at BMW Leipzig,” The Journal of Architecture, vol.15, no.2, April, 2010, 747-773.
“Landscape Urbanism at the Architectural Association,” in Topos 71, June 2010, 64-71..
“Landscape Urbanism at the AA,” in Domus (China) November 2007, 17-24.
"When a Moving Body Meets a New Formation: Plasma Studio and the Fourth Floor of the Hotel America,” AA Files 53, Spring 2006, 14-19.
BOOK CHAPTERS
“Architecture, Capital, and the Subject of the City in the 21st Century,” in Marxism, Urban Critical Theory and the Urban Question in the XXI Century, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan (forthcoming 2023).
“Landscape is an Empty Promise,” in Landscape Is…?, eds, Gareth Doherty and Charles Waldheim, London and New York, Routledge, (forthcoming, 2023).
“Afterword: Architecture After Alienation,” in Postcapitalist Urbanization, eds, Daniel Daou and Mariano Gomez Luque, Arquine, 2022 (forthcoming).
“Oblast, kapitalizem in arhitektura: Intervju z Douglasom Spencerjem [On Power, Capitalism and Architecture: An interview with Douglas Spencer],” in O Oblasti V Arhitecturi [On Power in Architecture], ed. by Mateja Kurir, Ljubljana: Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory, Maska, 2022, 227-236.
"Introduction: A Call Against the Calling,” in “Can this be? Surely this cannot be?”Architectural Workers Organizing in Europe, Marisa Cortight, VI-PER Gallery, Prague, 2021, 6-13.
“Bearing Capital: Platforms, Performance and Personification,” in Platform Urbanism and its Discontents, eds Peter Moertenboeck and Helge Mooshammer, and Rotterdam: NAI010 2021, 311-320.
“Affect, Architecture and the Apparatus of Capture,” in Architecture and Affect after Deleuze, eds., Hélène Frichot and Marko Jobst, London and New York: Routledge, 2020, 26-39.
“Going to Ground: Agency, Design and the Problem of Bruno Latour,” in Landscape as Territory, ed. Clara Oloriz Sanjuan, Barcelona: Actar, 2019, 150-157.
“Material and Rational Feminisms: A Contribution to Humane Architectures,” (with Peg Rawes) in Architecture and Feminisms: Ecologies, Economies, Technologies, eds Hélène Frichot, Catharina Gabrielsson and Helen Runting, Routledge, 2017, 153-162.
“Agency and Artifice in the Environment of Neoliberalism,” in Landscape and Agency, eds Ed Wall and Tim Waterman, Routledge, 2017, 177-187.
“Less than Enough: A Critique of Aureli,”, in This Thing Called Theory, eds Teresa Stoppani, Giorgio Ponzo, and George Themistokleous, Routledge, 2016, 283-291
“The New Phantasmagoria: Transcoding the Violence of Financial Capitalism,”in Nadir Lahiji, ed. Idolatry and Ideology: The Missed Encounter of Radical Philosophy with Architecture, Continuum, London, 2014, 79-94.
“Remaking the Public in Post-reform China: OMA’s CCTV and the Image of Labour,” in Elie Haddad and Nadir Lahiji, eds. Against the Post-Political: Reclaiming the Critical Project in Architecture, Routledge, London, 2014, 151-166.
“Investing in the Ground: Reflections on Scarcity, Remediation and Obdurate Form,”’ in Jon Goodbun, ed, Scarcity: Architecture in an Age of Depleting Resources Architectural Design, Wiley Academy, London, 2012, 82-87.
“Instrumental Urbanism and Immaterial Labour,” in Positions on the City, Marina Lathouri and Ryan Dillon, eds., AA Publications, 2010.
“Outside the Kaleidoscope,” in Recycling Culture/s edited by Sara Martin, Felicity Hand, Isabel Clúa, Cambridge, 2008, 191-200.
"From Representation to (Re)invention: Digital Architecture, NURBS and the Body,” (with Henriette Bier) in De-/signing the Urban. Techno-genesis and the urban image edited by Gerhard Bruyns, O10, Rotterdam, 2006, 391-397.
“The Alien Comes Home: Getting Past the Twin Planets of Possession and Austerity in Le Guin’s The Dispossessed,” in The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed, edited by Laurence Davis and Peter Stillman, Lexington Books, 2005, 95-110.
EXHIBITION CONTRIBUTIONS
“Capital Architecture,” European Academy of Art, Trier, Germany, April/May 2018, organised and designed by Professor Robert Thum, University of Trier, and Dr Harald Trapp, University of East London, filmed interview. https://www.capitalarchitecture.eu
“Platform Austria,” Austrian contribution to the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021, organized and curated by Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer, essay. https://www.platform-austria.org/en
BOOK REVIEWS
“Proletarianisation isn’t working,” review of Bernard Stiegler, Automatic Society: The Future of Work, Volume 1, trans, Daniel Ross (Cambridge: Polity, 2016), in Radical Philosophy, 2.01, January/February 2018, 99-102.
“Bare life,” review of Beatriz Preciado, Pornotopia: An Essay on Playboy’s Architecture and Politics (Zone Books, New York, 2014), in Radical Philosophy, No. 195, January/February 2016, 58-60.
“Escapology,” review of Carl Cederström and Peter Fleming, Dead Man Working (Zero Books, Winchester and Washington DC, 2012), in Radical Philosophy, No. 180, July/August 2013, 64-65.
“Plot twists,” review of Nadir Lahiji, ed., The Political Unconscious of Architecture: Re-opening Jameson’s Narrative, (Ashgate, Farnham and Burlington VT, 2011), in Radical Philosophy, No. 174, July/August 2012, 45-47
“Le crunch,” review of Paul Virilio, The Futurism of the Instant: Stop–Eject, trans. Julie Rose (Polity Press, Cambridge and Malden MA, 2011), in Radical Philosophy, No. 169, September/October 2011, 58-60.
“Postmodernism redux,” review of Reinhold Martin, Utopia’s Ghost: Architecture and Postmodernism Again (University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis and London, 2010), in Radical Philosophy, No. 164, November/December 2010, 51-53.
Review of Michael Batty, Cities and Complexity: Understanding Cities with Cellular Automata, Agent-Based Models, and Fractals (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2007), in The Journal of Architecture, Volume 14, 2009, 446-450.
“Escape from reality,” review of Dimitris Papadopoulos, Niamh Stephenson and Vassilis Tsianos, Escape Routes: Control and Subversion in the Twenty-First Century (Pluto Press, London and Ann Arbor MI, 2008), in Radical Philosophy, No. 157, September/October 2009, 54-56.
“Operative history,” review of Pier Vittorio Aureli, The Project of Autonomy: Politics and Architecture within and against Capitalism (Buell Center/FORuM Project and Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 2008), in Radical Philosophy, No. 153, January/February 2009, 54-56.
Review of Andrew Higgott, Mediating Modernism: Architectural Cultures in Britain (Routledge, London and New York, 2007), in AA Files, No. 56, 2007, 77-79.
“The Theory of Practice and the Practice of Theory,” review of Iain Borden, Skateboarding, Space and the City: Architecture and the Body (Berg, Oxford, 2001), in Culture Machine, Reviews 2003, https://culturemachine.net/reviews/borden-skateboarding-space-and-the-city-cunningham/
KEYNOTE AND INVITED LECTURES
“Landscape as a Scene of Production,” Keynote lecture for Landscape Urbanism Symposium at the Architectural Association London, September 13, 2022 (forthcoming).
“Lessons from Tafuri,” panel presentation for “Architectural Workers Unite!”, London Festival of Architecture, June 11, 2022.
"Design, Landscape and Re-naturalization: A Critique,” KTH, Stockholm, May 4, 2022.
“Burning Down the House: On Design and Renaturalizatiion in the Capitalocene,” Loudreaders Trade School, May 1, 2022.
“Design, Environment and Re-naturalization: A Critique,” Yale School of Architecture, April 7, 2022.
“Bad Materialisms and Flat Ontologies: Architecture theory from post-criticality to Actor Network Theory”, National University of Singapore, Singapore, October 22, 2021.
“The Nature of Capital and its Modes of Representation,” Architectural Association Visiting School, Mexico, October 15, 2021.
“Greened New Worlds,” Lebanese American University, Beirut, September 29, 2021
“Institutions and Instruments of Architectural Critique,” Radical/Reform/Revolution symposium, Architectural Association, London, May 7, 2021.
“Dialectic of Nature and Capital: Subjects of the Eco-Imaginary,” EPFL, Lausanne, December 10, 2020.
“Personifying Capital: Architecture and the Image of Participation,” RWTH Aachen University, November 23, 2020.
“Island Life: The Eco-Imaginary of Capital,” Tec de Monterey, Mexico/Architectural Association Visiting School, Mexico, November 21, 2020.
“Dialectic of Nature and Capital: Subjects of the Eco-Imaginary,” Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil, November 20, 2020
"Personifying Capital: Architecture and the Image of Participation,” Istanbul Technical University, November 10, 2020.
“Back to the Bonaventure,” Department of Architecture, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, April 28, 2020.
“Grazing the Landscape: On the Eco-imaginary of Capital,” Landscape Architecture, Harvard GSD, Cambridge, MA, February 18, 2020.
“Instantiating Opportunism: Architecture, Neoliberalism and the Archaeology of the Platform,” Keynote lecture for launch of Austrian Pavilion for the Venice Biennale, 2020, Center for Architecture, Vienna. November 25, 2019.
“Architecture and the Subject of Capital,” On Power in Architecture, III, Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana, September 26, 2019.
“Reading Capital, Reading Jameson, Reading Balibar,” Harvard GSD, Urban Theory Lab, April 5, 2019.
“After Subversion,” University of Michigan Taubman, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Ann Arbor, Un-working Platforms symposium, January 28, 2019.
“Investments and Returns: Detroit and Late Fordism,” GSAPP, Columbia University, New York, Renegotiating Precarity symposium, November 17, 2018.
“The Ends of Design,” Harvard GSD, Cambridge, MA, The Ends of Architecture colloquium, November 6, 2018.
“Dragging Architecture,” Design Museum, London, Postmodernism Now: Politics, Culture, Context symposium, 30 June, 2018.
“Withdrawn,” Architectural Association, London, Double Crossing: This Thing Called Theory 2, 30 May, 2018.
“Architecture and the Other Scene: Infrastructure and Superstructure in Theory,” Yale School of Architecture, Rebuilding Architecture symposium, 26 January, 2018.
“Still Dreaming? Space After Spectacle and the Indifference of Architecture,” College of Design, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 24 January, 2018.
"The Architecture of Neoliberalism,” Marxism in Culture Group, University of London, 12 January, 2018.
“The Architecture of Neoliberalism,” London School of Architecture, 8 January, 2018.
“Still Dreaming? Space After Spectacle and the Indifference of Architecture,” Architecture, Space and Society Centre, Birkbeck, University of London, 27 October, 2017.
“Environments of Indifference: Architecture and Algorithmic Governmentality,” Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart, Germany, 30 May, 2017
“Space After Spectacle,” Architecture, Phantasmagoria & the Culture of Contemporary Capitalism symposium, Georgia Tech School of Architecture, Atlanta, 31 March 2017.
“Environments of Indifference: Architecture and Algorithmic Governmentality,” Keynote lecture for Architecture, Natures, Data: The Politics of Environments, Faculty of Architecture, Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia, 21-22 April, 2017.
“The Architecture of Neoliberalism,” Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA, 14 April, 2017.
“Requiem for a Dreamworld,” The (Dis)enchanted Subject of Architecture: From Neobaroque to Neoliberalism, symposium, Architectural Association, London, 25 November, 2016.
“Affect and Individuation: Architecture and Experience in the Culture of Neoliberalism,” ESALA, Edinburgh University, 28 September, 2016.
“Immediate Affect: Architecture, Neoliberalism and the Patterning of Experience,” keynote lecture at The Architecture of Deregulations conference, KTH, Stockholm April, 2016.
“Rhapsodies of Perception: Architecture, Affect and the Immersive Environment,” Kent School of Architecture, December 3, 2014.
“Architecture and the Technoaesthetics of the Environment,” Processing Environments symposium, Guggenheim Bilbao, 19 June 2012.
“Remaking the Public: CCTV, the Hyperbuilding and the Image of Labour,” Berlage Institute, Rotterdam, 27 April, 2012.
“Landscape, Agency, and Artifice, Landscape and Critical Agency,” Landscape and Critical Agency symposium, the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, 17 February 2012.
“Schooled in Precarity: the subject of education,” Roscoe Occupation, Manchester University, 8 March 2011.
"Marketing Strategies: FOA and Ravensbourne,” MA History and Critical Thinking, Architectural Association, London, 31 January 2011.
“Groundworks,” Infrastructures and Landscapes symposium, Institute of Urbanism and Landscape, AHO, Oslo, 14 October 2010.
“Instrumental Urbanism and Immaterial Labour,” AA City Cultures Research Cluster Symposium, Architectural Association, London, 14 May, 2010.
“Complexity without Contradiction: Cybernetics, Architecture and Enchantment,” Keynote lecture for Nordic Association of Architectural Research, Annual Conference, University of Tampere, Finland, April 22-24, 2010.
PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE AND SYMPOSIA PAPERS (selected)
“Material and Rational Feminisms,” with Peg Rawes, “Architecture and Feminisms: Ecologies, Economies, Technologies,” 13th AHRA International Conference, KTH Stockholm, November 17-19 2016.
“Architecture’s Franciscan Turn: Forms of Life and Pre-critical Theory,” ‘This Thing Called Theory,” 12th AHRA International Conference, Leeds Beckett University, November 17, 2015.
“Parallel Lines: formal expression as publicity in the architecture of Hadid’s Central Building for BMW Leipzig,” 6th Annual AHRA Research Student Symposium: Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, 12 December 2009.
“Replicant Urbanism,” “Urbanism and Urbanization,” 5th International PhD Seminar, Faculty of Architecture, Urbanism and Planning, K.U. Leuven, 3 October, 2009.
“General Intellect, Collective Intelligence and Immaterial Labour: office architecture and the management of the network,” “Networks of Design conference,” The Design History Society, University College Falmouth, UK, September, 2008.
“Deleuzian Architecture in Control Societies,” “Defining Space” conference: School of Architecture, Landscape and Civil Engineering /School of Languages, Literatures and Film, University College Dublin, Ireland, October 2007.
“(Dis)possessed of a Vision: post-consumerist Utopias in Le Guin and radical design theory,” Utopian Studies Society, 5th International Conference, University of Porto, Oporto, Portugal, July 2004.
“Where is the Body in Digital Architecture?,” “Aesthetics & Architectural Composition,” Dresden International Symposium of Architecture, Dresden, Germany, June 2004.
CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIA and LECTURE SERIES ORGANIZED
“The (Dis)enchanted Subject of Architecture: From Neobaroque to Neoliberalism,” symposium at the Architectural Association, London, 25 November 2016. Organized with Nadir Lahiji.
“Landscape and Critical Agency,” a symposium at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, 17 February 2012, with Murray Fraser, Ed Wall and Tim Waterman
Landscape Urbanism Guest Lecture Series, for MA Landscape Urbanism, Architectural Association, 2008 to 2018, with Eva Castro and Alfredo Ramirez.
History and Critical Thinking Debates, Guest lecture series for MA History and Critical Thinking, Architectural Association, 2013 to 2018, with Marina Lathouri and John Palmesino.
History and Theory Open Lecture Series, Guest lecture series for School of Architecture, University of Westminster, 2016 to 2018.
SCHOLARLY SERVICE
Peer review duties
Book proposal and manuscript reviewer for Bloomsbury Academic and Routledge publishers.
Blind paper reviewer for Architecture and Culture, Architectural Theory Review, Architectural Histories, ARENA Journal of Architectural Research, Journal of Architecture, Medical Humanities, Southern Cultures.
Institutional service
External referee for The Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research assessment exercise, 2020.
Boards
International Editor for Journal of Architecture, 2021-
Research Officer for the Organizing Committee of the Architecture Lobby, 2020
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, 2018-
The Architecture Lobby, 2016-2020
3. TEACHING
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY
Courses
ARCH 220 Questions for Contemporary Architecture, Fall 2018
ARCH 596 Seminar on the Built Environment II: Landscape, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021
ARCH 597 Seminar on the Built Environment III: Theory, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022
ARCH 602 Communities, Architecture and the Environment, Spring 2021, with Liza Walling
MS Thesis Committees
Daniel Morley, “Returning to the Earth,” Fall 2019-Spring 2020, Major Professor
Ruchi Patel, “Architecture and identity: A study of colonial and post -colonial architecture in India,” Fall 2020-Spring 2021, Major Professor
ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION, LONDON
Landscape, Urbanism & Social Formations, Models, Methods and Histories. Class for students of MA Landscape Urbanism, Fall 2007-2017
The Rhetorics of Mapping. Class for MA Landscape Urbanism, Spring 2007-2018
The Subject of Architecture. Class for MA Historical and Critical Thinking in Architecture, Spring 2012-2018
UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON
AR2002 Supporting Studies History and Theory Level Two programme, The City: Urbanism, Culture and Experience, Fall and Spring 2007-2016
AR7301 Critical Writing:The Subject of the City. Class for MRes Reading the Neoliberal City, Fall 2015-2016
AR7302 Critical Studies: Territories and Formations of Neoliberalism. Class for MRes Reading the Neoliberal City, Spring 2016-2017
UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER
ARC453 History and Theory, Class for BA Hons Architecture, Fall 2014-2017
ARC653 History and Theory. Class for MArch, Spring 2015-2018
DISSERTATION COMMITTEES AND ADVISING AT OTHER UNIVERSITIES
PhDs Examined
Emanuel De Sousa, “Heterotopia: Reframing Spatial Practices and Boundaries, c.1968 - 2008,” Architectural Association, London, November 13, 2014
Ivonne Santoyo Orozco, “Rome, before the State: Lessons in Sensual Power, Architectural Association,” London, June 9, 2017
Ricardo Ruivo Pereira, “Architecture and Counter-revolution. The ideology of the historiography of the Soviet ‘avant-garde’,” Architectural Association, London, February 2, 2018
Helen Runting, “Architectures of the Unbuilt Environment,” KTH, Stockholm, May 18, 2018
Mariano Gomez Luque, “The Late Capitalist Skyscraper,” Harvard University Graduate School of Design, June 5, 2019
Miloš Kosec, “Passivism: Activism and Passivity in Contemporary Architecture,” Birkbeck, University of London, October 8, 2019
Elena Longhin, “The Machine in the Mountain: Territories of hydro-power in the Piave basin,” IUAV, Venice, March 29, 2021
PhDs Supervised
Rosa Ainley, “Writing Alexandra Palace: Plurivocity as a method of cultural recovery of buildings,” Royal College of Art, London, 2014-2017
Juliana Kei, “Pessimist Utopia: Theo Crosby 1950-1990,” Royal College of Art, London, 2016-2018
Camilo Vladimir Amaral, “Architecture as Revolution: Practices of counter-objectification and outside subjectivities in micro-utopian experiences in the field of architecture,” University of East London, 2014-2018
Gabrielle Printz, “Architecture and Labor: Saudi Arabia 1960s-80s,” School of Architecture, Yale University, 2021-
4. RESEARCH/CREATIVE ACTIVITIES
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND IMPACTS: GRANTS AND POSITIONS
“What are You Working For?: Designing, Dwelling and Development in London,” Research Project coordinator, with Future Architects Front, April 2022-
Pickard Chilton Professorship in Architecture, 2021-
Graham Foundation grant recipient, “Landscape as Territory”, with Clara Olóriz, Stuart Elden and Liam Mouritz, 2018
“Urban Prototypes”, Architectural Association Research Cluster Directorship, with Clara Olóriz, 2012-2013
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND IMPACTS: REVIEWS OF MY WORK
Critique of Architecture: Essays on Theory, Autonomy and Political Economy, 2021
Wolfe, Ross, “In a series of brilliant essays, Critique of Architecture bursts the post-critical bubble,” The Architect’s Newspaper, June 14, 2022, https://www.archpaper.com/2022/06/series-essays-critique-of-architecture-bursts-post-critical-bubble/
John Hill, “Book Briefs #42,” A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books, April 11, 2022, https://archidose.blogspot.com/2022/04/book-briefs-42.html
Lukas Meisner, “Critique of Architecture: Essays on Theory, Autonomy and Political Economy,” Marx and Philosophy Review of Books, December 17, 2021, https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/19801_critique-of-architecture-essays-on-theory-autonomy-and-political-economy-by-douglas-spencer-reviewed-by-lukas-meisner/
Edwin Heathcote, “Best Books of 2021: Architecture and Design, ” The Financial Times, November 19, 2021, https://www.ft.com/content/37545da9-7142-408b-a0bb-e458079ebd53
Martin Küpper, “Einfach laufen lassen Alptraum in Beton: Douglas Spencer entlarvt die Architektur des Spätfordismus”, Junge Welt, July 22, 2021, https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/406826.kritik-der-baukunst-einfach-laufen-lassen.html
Sophie Jung, “Buchtipp: Letztlich das Subjekt Critique of Architecture von Douglas Spencer,” BauNetz, July 21, 2021, https://www.baunetz.de/meldungen/MeldungenCritique_of_Architecture_von_Douglas_Spencer_7682169.html?wt_mc=nla.2021-07-21.meldungen.cid-7682169
Andrew Rabeneck, “Critique of Architecture: Essays on Theory, Autonomy and Political Economy,” Buildings and Cities, May 18, 2021, https://www.buildingsandcities.org/insights/reviews/critique-architecture-theory.html
Martin Kohlberger, “Wieder kritisch sein,” Archithese, February 25, 2021, https://archithese.ch/ansicht/wieder-kritisch-sein.html
The Architecture of Neoliberalism: How Architecture Became an Instrument of Control and Compliance, 2016
Michael Brooks, “The Architecture of Neoliberalism,” Designing Buildings, December 2, 2020, https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/The_Architecture_of_Neoliberalism
Marco Reggiani, “The Architecture of Neoliberalism by Douglas Spencer.” Urban Research Table, March 30, 2019, https://urbanresearchtable.com/book-review-the-architecture-of-neoliberalism-by-douglas-spencer/
Maxwell Donnewald, “The Architecture of Neoliberalism: How Architecture Became an Instrument of Control and Compliance,” Pin-Up 23, Fall Winter 2017/18, https://archive.pinupmagazine.org/articles/book-club-the-architecture-of-neoliberalism-how-contemporary-architecture-became-an-instrument-of-control-and-compliance#11
Ivonne Santoyo Orozco, “The Architecture of Neoliberalism: How Architecture Became an Instrument of Control and Compliance,” The Journal of Architecture, November, 8, 2017, Volume 22, Number 8, 1369-1372, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13602365.2017.1396728?journalCode=rjar20
Leslie Sklair, “The Architecture of Neoliberalism: How Architecture Became an Instrument of Control and Compliance,” Planning Perspectives, 160-162, Oct 11, 2017, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02665433.2018.1385755
Alexandre Leskanich, “Alexandre Leskanich discusses contemporary architecture and its neoliberal compliance,” Hong Kong Review of Books, September 17, 2017, https://hkrbooks.com/2017/09/17/the-architecture-of-neoliberalism/
Libero Andreotti, “The Architecture of Neoliberalism.” Journal of Architectural Education, September 12, 2017, https://www.jaeonline.org/articles/review/architecture-neoliberalism#/page1/
Joseph Henry Staten, “What Exists Is Good: On ‘The Architecture of Neoliberalism’,” Los Angeles Review of Books, March 25, 2017, https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/what-exists-is-good-on-the-architecture-of-neoliberalism/
Owen Hatherley, “Privatising the World,”, The Guardian, January 12, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jan/12/the-architecture-of-neoliberalism-douglas-spencer-review