Theorist
Pierre Bourdieu
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Details
- Nationality
- French
Classifications
- Holder
- Individual
- Source of authority
- ObservationReason
- Subject
- Human centred
- Political position
- Subaltern resistant
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Relational embodied
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Notes
His notion of habitus is credited with bringing new subtlety to debates on cultural capital and architectural judgement, aligning the structure of architectural settings with practical/inventive activity (Pinto 2002; Lipstadt 2003).
Connections
- authored Outline of a Theory of Practice
- proposed Habitus & Symbolic Capital
- developed Habitus & Symbolic Capital
Sources
- Pierre Bourdieu. La Distinction: Critique sociale du jugement (Distinction). Les Éditions de Minuit, 1979.
- in Crysler, Cairns & Heynen (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory, SAGE, 2012 — export p. 8 of 22
- in Crysler, Cairns & Heynen (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory, SAGE, 2012 — export p. 21 of 21
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Pierre Bourdieu." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/theorist/pierre-bourdieu/. Accessed July 17, 2026.