Power
Architecture presents a series of projects based on current and extreme
syntheses of comprehensive and complex world-views, which enables
mapping a network of powers that align, intersect, inflect and diverge
from each other. Collective power, ordaining power, economic power,
technological power, ritual power, cultural power, media power and
domestic power are being discussed in the book. Against this backdrop
the issue of counter power is examined.
Power and architecture are fundamental to the question of how
contemporary society and architecture work together. Since power lacks a
comprehensive logic, coherence and instrumentalization capability, the
question refers both to the autonomous powers of the architectural forms
as well as to a set of external powers represented through
architecture.
Through eight essays by various contributors, along with images,
drawings and documents, the book renders visible a set of entities,
informal conventions, stakeholders and means involved in the creation of
architecture; that is, the dynamics of the collective that ceaselessly
tests the architectural composition of the common world.
