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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 intrinsic link that conn...

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

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

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

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