Image, Speech and Action, by Frank Weiner & Steve Thompson
The efficacy of the political, if it is not already too late to speak of such things, depends on the unity between imagination, speech...
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Isparchitecture
- Apr 30, 2018
- 3 min
Mistaken Identity, by Christopher Vernon
Constructed de novo, beginning in 1913, Canberra’s urban fabric is now a palimpsest which registers the hands of a succession of...
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Isparchitecture
- Apr 30, 2018
- 3 min
What architecture does, by Margit van Schaik
‘We shape our buildings, and afterwards they shape us’, those were the words used by Winston Churchill in his plea to rebuild the British...
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Isparchitecture
- Apr 30, 2018
- 2 min
Architectural Craftsmanship and Public Responsibility, by Hans Teerds
It does not need much explanation that buildings represent ideas. Like all other artifacts, ideas shape buildings. Or at least, ideas are...
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Isparchitecture
- Apr 30, 2018
- 2 min
Rorty on Overcoming the Choice between Hubris or Humility, by Tom Spector
When working abroad within cultures that do not share our values or legal protections against, say, bribery, women’s participation,...
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Isparchitecture
- Apr 30, 2018
- 3 min
The Mémorial des Martyrs de la Déportation and a Minoritarian Politic, by Kieran Richards
Within a short peregrination from almost any metro station in Paris one often stumbles across a monument of some kind. Above metro...
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Isparchitecture
- Apr 30, 2018
- 2 min
Politics and Aesthetics in the Architecture of the EU, by Dennis Pohl
Although contemporary media coverage widely circulate the term 'Capital of Europe' in association with Brussels, Strasbourg or...
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Isparchitecture
- Apr 30, 2018
- 3 min
(Architecture’s) power and the (Arnhem) panopticon, by André Patrão
There is an abundance of cases – architectural and philosophical, and especially post-modern; by academics, practitioners, and critics –...
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Isparchitecture
- Apr 30, 2018
- 3 min
Politics, the Picturesqe, and Park Design, by Roger Paden
In this talk I take up the question of whether architecture can have a direct political or ideological effect. I understand this question...
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Isparchitecture
- Apr 30, 2018
- 2 min
“Orgies of Speech”: OMA’s Political Projects and the Evolution of the Post-Political, by Graham Owen
Douglas Spencer, in his skilful and timely analysis (2016) of the architecture of neoliberalism, traces a shift in political attitude...
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Isparchitecture
- Apr 30, 2018
- 2 min
The geometry of politics, by Andrzej Olejniczak
The essay examines how physical features of the building relate to the amount of freedom in a given built environment. As a departure...
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Isparchitecture
- Apr 30, 2018
- 3 min
Eclecticism: The Architecture of Liberal Democracy, by Daniel Morales
When power and information are held by the few, innovation and freedom of expression are limited. This is just as true in architecture...
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Isparchitecture
- Apr 30, 2018
- 3 min
The Islamic Utopia and the Contemporary Statesmanship, by Iradj Moeini
The call for a return to pre-modern values in architecture dates back to at least 1960s if not earlier. Animated by anti-colonialist...
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Isparchitecture
- Apr 30, 2018
- 3 min
Building as Being-With, by Katherine Melcher
From cathedrals to state capitals to lifestyle centers, the world is full of examples where architecture expresses the dominant...
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Isparchitecture
- Apr 30, 2018
- 3 min
National identity and architecture, by Milica Madanovic & Aleksandar Radakovic
The process of the creation of nations is characterized by the goal of liberation from a political oppressor, but also by the...
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Isparchitecture
- Apr 30, 2018
- 3 min
The Architect in Plato's Statesman, by Aleksander Kostic
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...
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Isparchitecture
- Apr 30, 2018
- 2 min
Architecture in times of crisis, by Arian Korkuti
This paper addresses the socio-political ground(s) and the place architecture occupies in the first part of the twentieth century in...
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Isparchitecture
- Apr 30, 2018
- 3 min
Symbolizing Democracy in the Masculist Mid-Century: The Curious Case of Yamasaki, by Paul Kidder
The architectural-historical question as to how mid-century modern architects sought to symbolize democracy carries with it philosophical...
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Isparchitecture
- Apr 30, 2018
- 3 min
Giorgio Agamben’s concept of landscape as an arche of architecture, by Minna Hagman
In this paper I examine Giorgio Agamben’s concept of landscape (Agamben 2014, 2017) as a possibility to think architecture in a way that...
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Isparchitecture
- Apr 30, 2018
- 2 min
Useless Speculation, by Rick Fox
One way to make sense of, and thus critique the relationship between architecture and power, is through an examination of the...
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