The significance of Pierre Bourdieu’s work for architectural theory is partly owing to his account of capital. For Bourdieu, capital is not limited to economic resources, but it also includes specific cultural assets. This cultural capital is in turn represented by signs, such as the symbolic values that are associated with a prestigious house or prime office space. Bourdieu used the term ‘symbolic capital’ to account for these signs. He also recognised that while cultural assets follow from the possession of economic capital, the signs or symbolic capital through which those assets are represented in the world facilitate the acquisition of further economic and social gains. Thus, the signs and socio-aesthetic equations of architecture can underpin the further acquisition of economic, cultural, and social rewards. In this article, I examine the signs embodied in prime office space in relation to Bourdieu’s understanding of symbolic capital. I focus on the ways in which it functions with respect to flows of economic to symbolic (cultural) to economic capital. I show that these symbolic values and the cultural capital that they represent yield particular rewards and help maintain the system of socioeconomic relations that generates these rewards.

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布迪厄在伦敦

皮埃尔·布迪厄 (Pierre Bourdieu) 的建筑理论工作的重要性部分归功于他对资本的解释。对于布尔迪厄来说，资本不仅限于经济资源，还包括特定的文化资产。这种文化资本反过来又由符号代表，例如与著名住宅或优质办公空间相关的象征价值。布迪厄使用“符号资本”一词来解释这些符号。他还认识到，虽然文化资产源于经济资本的拥有，但在世界上代表这些资产的符号或象征性资本有助于获得进一步的经济和社会收益。因此，建筑的标志和社会美学方程可以支持进一步获得经济、文化和社会回报。在本文中，我研究了与布迪厄对符号资本的理解相关的主要办公空间中体现的标志。我关注它在经济资本到象征（文化）到经济资本的流动方面的运作方式。我表明，这些象征价值和它们所代表的文化资本产生了特殊的回报，并有助于维持产生这些回报的社会经济关系系统。