Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
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The Prince and the Fortress – Machiavelli on Architecture
In the citadel, the new mark of the city is obvious; a change of scale, deliberately meant to awe and overpower the beholder. Though the mass of the inhabitants might be poorly fed and overworked, no expense was spared …
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The fall of the Narkomfin – end of an architectural vision
In the early 1920’s, at the height of revolutionary zeal in Soviet Russia, Leninists believing fervently in the inevitability of the technological utopia rushing towards them, spearheaded a series of cultural experiments aimed at restructuring their lives under radically new …
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Are recessions good for architecture?
As the UK economy braces itself for a slide into the dreaded second dip of a global capitalist crisis, I found myself trawling through an article I was asked to write the last time recession struck these shores, all …