'Articulated with rare philosophical intelligence and political incisiveness, Nadir Lahiji's new book proposes architecture as the preeminent art of the masses, one that is closer to cinema than to the other arts. A training ground for our wider confrontations with a technological capitalist modernity, architecture emerges once again as the best hope for a political pedagogy of the masses and for the formation of new political subjectivities. Brilliantly reading Walter Benjamin with Alain Badiou, psychoanalytic criticism with film theory, Architecture, Philosophy, and the Pedagogy of Cinema summons us to rethink the very project of architectural production today.' David Cunningham, Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, University of Westminster 'A seminal contribution to the political philosophy of architecture that extends, updates, and actualizes some of Benjamin's most far-reaching reflections on the crisis of perception towards a new perspective on architecture as a "mass art" in the time of digital capitalism, after the end of cinema. For sheer intellectual stimulation, few can match Lahiji's inquisitive probing of architecture's contemporary predicament.' Libero Andreotti, Professor Emeritus of Architecture, Georgia Tech 'Architecture, Philosophy, and the Pedagogy of Cinema: From Benjamin to Badiou puts forward the challenging case for architecture as the only living mass art with revolutionary political potential. Nadir Lahiji argues persuasively that the emergence of the masses as "historical subject" is aided by a radical restructuring of perception; as cinema in the modern period reshaped the social imaginary, so architecture can perform this role today.' Christopher Kul-Want, Course Leader, MRes Art Theory & Philosophy, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.