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Day: January 8, 2021

Power(less) Architecture

This article is interesting and very timely with what happened in Washington on Wednesday. If we continue to represent power with obsolete and hierarchical architectural symbols, citizens will feel repressed and will never know what and how a democratic space is created. It is also interesting that Donald Trump wanted to decree that all government buildings should maintain their neo-classical aesthetics as symbols of political and economic power.

The Solipsism of Architecture by Ole Bouman