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...

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

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

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

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...