POLITICS AND ARCHITECTURE

INTRODUCTION TO POLITICS

Politics:The science of government;

that part of ethics which has to do with the regulation and government of a nation or state,

the preservation of its safety, peace, and prosperity, the defense of its existence and rights against foreign control or conquest,

the augmentation of its strength and resources, and the protection of its citizens in their rights,

with the preservation and improvement of their morals.

KEYWORDS

SOCIAL RELATIONMETHODS TO FORMULATE AND APPLY POLICY

POWERAUTHORITY AND LEGITIMACY

ETHICS

FROM PLATO TO MARX

PLATO

The Republic:Political Systems CORRUPT

VALUE OF JUSTICE ? Justice is simply an interest of the stronger

RELATION BETWEEN: KNOWLEDGE AND JUST

Aristotle

Politics:Human = social animal

Polis = container + provider good life from animals

Niccolo Machiavelli

Il Principe: Manipulation Power

Justification Brutality for purpose of security

Thomas Hobbes

Leviathan:Social Contract

Justification action for RulerSovereignty Order: Legislative, Executive, JudicialState of Nature: Natural equality of men: nature has

made men equal in faculties of body and mind

John Locke

Treatises:Human Nature: Equality, Freedom&Rationality, Sociability

Justifying Private PropertyCommunity created by “any number of men”; majority then

has right to act

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Social Contract:Origin of Political Society / Civil Society

man was born free, but he is everywhere in chains

Karl Marx

Das Kapital: Classless society

SPACE AND POLITICSSpace is inherently political; politics is inherently spatial.

Heidegger: Polis Politics

Foucault: space is fundamental to any exercise of power

What will you learn in this course?

City Built for PoliticsBrasilia

CanberraChandigarh

Capital City & DevelopmentParisBerlinTokyo

Washington DCJakarta

City Decay and RebuiltBilbaoOsaka

Beijing OlympicLiverpool

Politics of The CitySYDNEY VS MELBOURNE

Urban Design PoliticsBERLIN OLYMPIC STADIUM

MONUMENTSLA GRANDE ARCHE DE LA DEFENSE

Politics of Public PlacesPOSTDAMER PLATZ

BERLIN’ JEWISH MUSEUMPOST SOCIALIST & COMMUNIST SPACES

Louis I. Kahn: The Idea of Public Decorum

Yale University Art GalleryDhaka’s National Assembly Building

Indian Institute of Management

Politics of ContemporaryArchitectural Discourses

Mark RakatanskyMario Gandelsonas

Sanford KwinterK. Michael Hays

Stan Allen

Architecture of FearSECURED CITY

GATED COMMUNITY

Consumerism and ArchitectureOmotesando

MacauDisneyland

ARCHITECTURE:FOR POLITICAL PURPOSE

FROM POLITICAL WILLBY POLITICAL ACTION

JAKARTA NOW!TRANSCIENT PUBLIC PLACE IN JAKARTA