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

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

‘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, worke...

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

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

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 fro...

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

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

The call for a return to pre-modern values in architecture dates back to at least 1960s if not earlier. Animated by anti-colonialist sent...

From cathedrals to state capitals to lifestyle centers, the world is full of examples where architecture expresses the dominant socio-pol...

The process of the creation of nations is characterized by the goal of liberation from a political oppressor, but also by the establishme...

It is a commonplace claim that a building can or indeed does express a political idea. But how exactly does this happen? Is there an intr...

This paper addresses the socio-political ground(s) and the place architecture occupies in the first part of the twentieth century in Ital...

The architectural-historical question as to how mid-century modern architects sought to symbolize democracy carries with it philosophical...

In this paper I examine Giorgio Agamben’s concept of landscape (Agamben 2014, 2017) as a possibility to think architecture in a way that ...

One way to make sense of, and thus critique the relationship between architecture and power, is through an examination of the socio-polit...