Architectural Violence, Architectural Power: The Fall of the Post-Political and the New Empowerment

Violence has come to define and accelerate our architectural epochs. In the erection, abandonment, or destruction of architecture, buildings reveal shifts in economic and political power. Violence accompanies these shifts, fear reveals cracks in theory and discipline, and new architectural paradigms emerge. However, the types of violence that follow these shifts are not well defined. Is violence, as Tschumi offered, metaphor, or does it present a more fundamental crisis in our discipline? The power of architecture—its very agency in contributing to the social change it accompanies—is resized within the parameters of each political epoch.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.106.14

Volume Editors
Amir Ameri & Rebecca O'Neal Dagg

ISBN
978-1-944214-15-9