Politics and Architecture

Abstract

Politics of contemporary urban architecture, as political thought and action, is a wide topic which contains for example discoursive debates of architectural styles and approaches; politicking with the institutional choices of architects and styles; architects as political actors; architectural design and thinking as a medium of politics, ideology and critique; urban artefacts as memorials; architecture as shaping urban identities, city-images, political cityscapes etc. The panel on contemporary urban architecture addresses recent debates and projects, or the effects of war or the postcommunist condition on the city and its buildings. The papers reflect on the temporality and at the same time the legacies of the past which are present in the city and its architecture. They also observe how specific urban artefacts are tied to political discourses and/or how they create ideological spaces. Politics of architecture - building, wearing down and destruction - also transforms cities, and thereby urban experience, identities and city-images.

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