Douglas Spencer has taught at the Royal College of Art, the Architectural Association, London, and the University of Westminster. His writing on architecture, landscape, urbanism, and critical theory has been published widely. His The Architecture of Neoliberalism: How Architecture Became an Instrument of Control and Compliance was published by Bloomsbury in 2016, and his Critique of Architecture: Essays on Theory, Autonomy, and Political Economy, by Birkhäuser/Bauwelt Fundamente in 2021. His next book, Form and Fetish: Architecture, the Commodity, and the Ends of Capitalism. will be published by Bloomsbury in November 2026.
He founded the Free School for Critical Theory in 2026, and is planning its first Summer School starting June of this year
Notes on Tafuri, Militancy, and Unionization
Co-authored with Marianela D’Aprile. Avery Review, no. 56 (April, 2022), https://averyreview.com/issues/56/notes-on-tafuri.
A Call Against the Calling
Introduction to “Can this be? Surely this cannot be?”Architectural Workers Organizing in Europe, Marisa Cortight, VI-PER Gallery, Prague, 2021.
On Power, Capitalism and Architecture: An interview with Douglas Spencer
Book chapter in On Power in Architecture, ed. by Mateja Kurir, Ljubljana: Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory, Maska, 2022.
Bearing Capital: Platforms, Performance and Personification
Book chapter in Platform Urbanism and its Discontents, eds Peter Moertenboeck and Helge Mooshammer, and Rotterdam: NAI010 2021.
Critique of Architecture: Essays on Theory, Autonomy and Political Economy
Book, Basel: Bauwelt Fundamente/Birkhäuser, 2021
Affect, Architecture and the Apparatus of Capture
Book chapter in Architecture and Affect after Deleuze, eds., Hélène Frichot and Marko Jobst, London and New York: Routledge 2020