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Architecture, Buildings, and Political Ends, by Saul Fisher
Does architecture, by its nature as practice or artifact, serve political ends? Taking ends of something X to be political iff X serves...
Isparchitecture
Apr 30, 20182 min read
Territorialization of Building: from the inside out, by Carolyn Fahey
Going beyond Deleuze’s heavily theorized notion of territorialization, particularly in geography circles, this paper uses the notion of...
Isparchitecture
Apr 30, 20182 min read
The Sublime Object of Nazi Architecture, by Orly Even
On my first excursion to Berlin, during a bus ride through the city, I noticed a very long, seemingly endless building, stretching across...
Isparchitecture
Apr 30, 20183 min read
A Phenomenological Analysis of the Material and Social Components of Dwelling, by Reidar Due
In 2005 Finnish architectural theorist Juhani Pallasmaa argued in The Eyes of the Skin that visual representations, computer-generated...
Isparchitecture
Apr 30, 20183 min read
Alternative governance and self-help architecture, by Cristina Dreifuss-Serrano
Informal settlements originate from permissive policies. The power at the time doesn’t have the capacity to stop or to regulate the...
Isparchitecture
Apr 30, 20183 min read
American Tiny-House Communities, by Lyndsey Deaton
We live in an era where municipal laws and social stigmas challenge the right to occupy space; where new urban solutions are dismantling...
Isparchitecture
Apr 30, 20182 min read
The Great Just Place: an Architectural Representation of Public Morality, by James Cook
This presentation uses Heidegger’s concept of the hermeneutic circle to question how the architecture of administrative offices functions...
Isparchitecture
Apr 30, 20183 min read
Israel’s Government Campuses: Urbanity, Not Statehood, by Shelly Cohen & Eran Tamir Tawil
In its first few decades, Israel’s government offices were mostly set up in formerly British or Arab structures, or in leased or...
Isparchitecture
Apr 30, 20183 min read
Off Axis, by Nic Coetzer
On the 9th March 2015, Cecil Rhodes found himself briefly covered in shit. So began a University of Cape Town student protest movement...
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Apr 30, 20183 min read
Gazing from Jerusalem, by Ariyuki Kondo
On his visit to the Holy Land in December 1970 as one of the members of the famed Jerusalem Committee, Sir Nikolaus Pevsner had come to...
Isparchitecture
Apr 30, 20183 min read
Untitled, by Travis Anderson
In this paper I propose a theory of architectural use value. This theory is based on a conception of meaning. By meaning we should not...
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Apr 30, 20182 min read
Architecture as The Manifestation of The Pahlavi’s Political Power, by Amini Niloofar
In this paper, I will discuss the way the architectural and urbanistic projects patronized by the Shah of Iran and his wife to support...
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Apr 30, 20183 min read
Tiny But Powerful: The Politics of the Tiny Homes Movement in Domestic Architecture, by Pam Aloisa
The Tiny Home Movement, and the popular trend towards very small homes generally, can be seen as a political dialog reflecting challenges...
Isparchitecture
Apr 30, 20182 min read
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