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

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

Does architecture, by its nature as practice or artifact, serve political ends? Taking ends of something X to be political iff X serves...

Going beyond Deleuze’s heavily theorized notion of territorialization, particularly in geography circles, this paper uses the notion of...

On my first excursion to Berlin, during a bus ride through the city, I noticed a very long, seemingly endless building, stretching across...

In 2005 Finnish architectural theorist Juhani Pallasmaa argued in The Eyes of the Skin that visual representations, computer-generated...

Informal settlements originate from permissive policies. The power at the time doesn’t have the capacity to stop or to regulate the...

We live in an era where municipal laws and social stigmas challenge the right to occupy space; where new urban solutions are dismantling...

This presentation uses Heidegger’s concept of the hermeneutic circle to question how the architecture of administrative offices functions...

In its first few decades, Israel’s government offices were mostly set up in formerly British or Arab structures, or in leased or...

On the 9th March 2015, Cecil Rhodes found himself briefly covered in shit. So began a University of Cape Town student protest movement...

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...

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...

In this paper, I will discuss the way the architectural and urbanistic projects patronized by the Shah of Iran and his wife to support...

The Tiny Home Movement, and the popular trend towards very small homes generally, can be seen as a political dialog reflecting challenges...