Johnson, C.B.

Bio Sketch

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Key Works

• *Icon and Ideology: Koolhaas in Beijing and the CCTV Headquarters* (2008) — critical analysis of OMA's CCTV Headquarters as spectacle architecture that gives form to "diffuse and centreless" authoritarian power, critiquing Koolhaas's post-critical position and proposing a "politics of refusal."

Key Concepts

Concepts associated with this author that have pages in this wiki:

• iconic-architecture
• spectacle

Relevance to Geoffrey's Research

Johnson offers a sharp ideological critique of iconic architecture as a formal rendering of state power, connecting the spectacle concept to concrete built projects in authoritarian contexts — a crucial contribution to the Ideology & Critique and Iconic Architecture clusters.

Source Support

Source notes in this wiki drawn from this author's work:

• Johnson 2008 Icon Ideology Cctv