Modesty and Moonshots – Anatomies of Power
How does architecture embody and become inflected by political theory? Bell and Zacka’s recent edited collection offers a series of fascinating and challenging accounts, addressing the role of arc…
How does architecture embody and become inflected by political theory? Bell and Zacka’s recent edited collection offers a series of fascinating and challenging accounts, addressing the role of architecture as encouraging behaviour and imparting meaning to actions; as symbolizing values; and as fostering a political ethos (5). [1] The book offers on the whole restrained optimism, recognising even in its gloomier moments that architecture can create democratic space, and sometimes its greatest strength is in its less ambitious statements, on the balconies of Beirut (Zacka), in the preservation o
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