Everything is ArchitectureHans Hollein

Everything is Politics Thomas Mann

Architecture is definitely a political act.Peter Eiserman

Direct relation

Architecture vs. Politics -Politicicians make a decion

Architects use architecture as tools to stand against the political descion.

Case study : Pink Seesaws Installed along US-Mexico Borderseeaws cut through Mexico-U.S. border wallRef. : Architecture against post political by Nadir Lahiji

-Architecture respond to the politcal atmosphereusing the strategy of Aestheticization of politics.

Case Study : CCTV project by OMARef.: Architecture against Post political(Nadir Lahiji )

Architecture vs. Politics

-Architecture respond to the politcal atmosphereusing the strategy of politicizing of art

Communism replies by politicizing art .

Refrence : Architecture agianst the Post political by Nadir Lahiji

Architecture with Politics

Open questions:

-the responds of architecture to dominant power? -where is the power and what is the power ?

-what does the building do in relation to power ? -how architecture (project) can criticize the power from the inside?

Framing Places Mediating power in built form Power : power is the ability...to define and control circumstances and events so

that one can influence things to go in the direction s of one interests

while

Empowerment is linked with autonomy and freedom...when we say that someone is empowered ,we mean their capacity to act increased.

Oppration-Liberation ?power over? power to ?

Better built Environment (but how ?)

Reading the city

Capitalism

Ref: The design hub ,RMIT,Melbourne

Repeated many times through each

shape

elements must be produced by factory

people can not produce these elements by

themselves

Using design decision

using circle elements

Economy of scale

Capitalism

Shape Galvanized facade elements

component connection production line

Component definition Component fabrication Component assembly

All remind us one system of economic

Case study: The design hub ,RMIT,Melbourne

Liberalism

Case studies: Social housing . santiago chile

Empowerment

IF that building was supercomplex and difficult you will not able to do

empowerment

Modularity so it can build by one person individually

Goals of thesis

Methodology Find out the connection between POWER and

ARCHITECTURE

Put out some guidlines how to react the architecture based on the context

Reading the Architecture

React directly to political power (ARC vs. Pol)

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