In the Sixties of the XIX century, the heart of the city of Milan was reshaped by Giuseppe Mengoni’s project for the new Duomo Square and...

The suggested paper focuses on the Jewish messianic architecture of the national-religious associations (NRAs) in East Jerusalem, which...

The efficacy of the political, if it is not already too late to speak of such things, depends on the unity between imagination, speech...

Constructed de novo, beginning in 1913, Canberra’s urban fabric is now a palimpsest which registers the hands of a succession of...

‘We shape our buildings, and afterwards they shape us’, those were the words used by Winston Churchill in his plea to rebuild the British...

It does not need much explanation that buildings represent ideas. Like all other artifacts, ideas shape buildings. Or at least, ideas are...

When working abroad within cultures that do not share our values or legal protections against, say, bribery, women’s participation,...

Within a short peregrination from almost any metro station in Paris one often stumbles across a monument of some kind. Above metro...

Although contemporary media coverage widely circulate the term 'Capital of Europe' in association with Brussels, Strasbourg or...

There is an abundance of cases – architectural and philosophical, and especially post-modern; by academics, practitioners, and critics –...

In this talk I take up the question of whether architecture can have a direct political or ideological effect. I understand this question...

Douglas Spencer, in his skilful and timely analysis (2016) of the architecture of neoliberalism, traces a shift in political attitude...

The essay examines how physical features of the building relate to the amount of freedom in a given built environment. As a departure...

When power and information are held by the few, innovation and freedom of expression are limited.  This is just as true in architecture...