On Power in Architecture

After focusing on the materialistic and the phenomenological philosophical perspective, the third and last edition of the symposia series On Power in Architecture focuses on the psychoanalytical and poststructuralist perspective of reflecting on the relation between power and architecture. The third international symposium will bring together renowned philosophers and theorists who will think about the specific intertwinement between power and architecture in contemporary neoliberalism.  Speakers: Andrew Ballantyne, Elke Krasny, Nadir Lahiji, Robert Pfaller, and Douglas Spencer

As part of the international symposium On Power in Architecture #3, a discussion on the topic of Architecture and Ideology took place on 25 September at the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana.

At the second symposium of the series On Power in Architecture, internationally renowned philosophers and an architectural historian will examine architecture in regard not only to its heterogeneous relationship to power using a selected case study, but this time from a phenomenological perspective.
 

Architecture has served throughout history as one of the most prominent tools of power, functioning as both its representation and its manifestation, embedded as it is within the public and the private realm. The aim of the symposium On Power in Architecture is to facilitate a critical discussion on the topic while bringing thinkers and practicioners together to propose concepts to reflect on the intertwined relation between power and architecture.

Wednesday, 20 September 2017, Ljubljana; a talk with the Swedish philosopher Sven-Olov Wallenstein who is considered a key author in the philosophy of architecture.