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Green & Pleasant Land, by Sam Eadington.My attitude, more specifically in relation to architecture, is that the subject is, by its very nature, political. The things we design and construct engage with people, places and culture.…View →
Brasilia: Reverie Embodied as City, by Lucas Di Gioia.In every one of these political moments, the will to move the capital inland was present and steps were taken in the attempt to materialise this dream.…View →
The INDESEM Archive, by Inez Margaux Spaargaren.I think the objective is to look at buildings, because they do contain an enormous range of values, from human, very small-scale values up to very large political values.…View →
The Formal Basis of Post-modern Joke Design (of Design Jokes), by Editorial team.A collection of jokes from different cultures, highlighting the intricacies of varying socio-economic-political contexts and how they can affect joke-design outcomes. First of all, we ought to make a distinction between joke design and design joke.…View →
Changing the Narrative, by Elena Rossoni.Valle de los Caídos. is a vast monumental memorial conceived by Francisco Franco and built between 1940 and 1959 partly by forced labour of Spain’s political prisoners.…View →
Brexit and British Architecture, by Amy Young.There is an underlying relationship between politics and the practice of architecture. Politics influences culture, economics, trade, ideals, business and current affairs, and each of these in turn has an effect on proposed design solutions.…View →
Guns, Germs, and Steel; The Fates of Human Societies, by Abhijeet Chandel.In the book, Diamond makes the case that cultures in regions with plenty of resources and favourable climates were better equipped to improve their political, economic, and technological systems than those in less favourable conditions.…View →
Interview: Raquel Rolnik, by Nicole van Roij.Do you feel that architects nowadays still engage sufficiently in the political scene and policy making? Less and less. From the 60's up to the 80's, there was big engagement, especially in urban planning, but also in architecture and design.…View →
To Be Identified As Such, by Tommi Hilsee.To be identified is supremely political— it is supremely about power— the power of definition— the power of subjugation.…View →
Physical or Intangible?, by Ksenija Onufrijeva.Committee headquarters, later a World Trade Centre and then an office block in Riga has also been recently fighting for its existence and preservation as Modernist heritage of international value due to another contextual conflict created by the socio-political…View →
Misleading Memories, by Ieva Davulyte .The profound feature of the social realist architecture is the belief that through the use of classical compositional elements an architecture can be filled with a political undercurrent.…View →
Shooting at the Verge, by Alessandro Rognoni.In a city at its first intense encounter with modernity, Fellini found an eccentric social sphere made of artists, comedians and writers; a society of intellectual silliness against the political purity of the regime.…View →
The Flawed Notion of a Separate Here and There, by Matt Roberts.Curiously though, the outline of the Cretaceous period coastline is conspicuously apparent on the map to the right, not as a physical feature but as a socio-political feature.…View →
Nah That Won't Happen Here Again, by Nathan Döding.The only way it might take place is when a politician loses his mind, but they would never gain enough power to take such action. Until February of 2022, when Putin announced a special military operation in Ukraine.…View →
Dear TU Delft, by Christopher Clarkson.When discussing the university’s hesitation to take a stand, he later added, “I think in general there is a big fear of making a political statement that might upset people.”.…View →
Bnieuws edition 54/05. Published May 2021.In this issue, we delve into colour’s political meaning, its disparate symbolisms, and look at the shades of our everyday life. We asked our contributors to write about a colour of their own interest, and challenged ourselves to do the same.…View →
Bnieuws edition 54/04. Published February 2021.Everybody has things they’d prefer not to discuss… perhaps it’s their country’s political background, or that subject they failed twice.…View →
The Berlage questionnaire: Emanuel Christ of Christ & Gantenbein, by Ana Herreros and Jin Chang.Political Correctness. Your agenda for tomorrow.…View →
Bnieuws edition 53/05. Published March 2020.On page 9, our contributor Amy Young takes a political approach towards the possible impact of the Brexit on the British architectural discipline.…View →
Writing Urban Places, by Nicole van Roij.Skopje is a city that faces a lot of challenges in relation to different social groups, extreme effects of neoliberalism and complex political issues related to identity.…View →
50 Euros for the Pleasures: Sex Workers in Red-light Districts , by Oliwia Jackowska.In a political discussion about women’s rights in Poland, after a nearly total abortion ban in the country, I was told that “if a man loses his job, he becomes homeless; a woman always has the option to sell sex, and the strong market demand for their…View →
Take It Seriously, by Federico Ruiz.The project was originally promoted by a politician who wanted to give a proper space in the city for the Muslim community. It was 1999.…View →
The Hot and Cold of Disseminating, by Tuyen Le.Ethel Baraona Pohl of dpr-barcelona sees the practice of writing about architecture as means to create new narratives that tie it with other fields such as daily lives, politics, social issues, and the economy.…View →