1st Edition

Architecture, Media, Populism… and Violence Reification and Representation II

Edited By Graham Cairns Copyright 2023
290 Pages 39 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

290 Pages 39 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

290 Pages 39 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The ‘Storming of the Capitol’ was, for many, the culminating media performance of the four-year presidency of Donald Trump. His presidency and its ‘final act’, bore all the hallmarks of a 21st century form of populism and media-politico spectacle that may yet come to dominate the political scene in the US, and worldwide, for years to come. The questions that such events raise are complex, varied... Read more

Weaponising Architecture

Graham Cairns

Part One

Chapter 1: Screening the Capitol Riots

Annie Dell’Aria

Chapter 2: Housing Populism: Constructing the "Little Man’s" House, Deconstructing the "Queer" Home

Malcolm Rio

Chapter 3: Representation and Refusal: From State Architecture to Highway Protests

Jeffrey Kruth

Chapter 4: Architecture And Disciplinary Knowledge: A Case Study of Hong Kong’s Heritage and Politics

Isaac Leung

Chapter 5: Mediating Consensus and Enacting Dissensus: Contested Space, Architecture and the Limits of Representation

Joern Langhorst

Intersection

Chapter 6: Architecture Journalism and the Proto-Political

Peggy Deamer and Ian Volner

Part Two

Chapter 7: The Press Photography of ‘Red Vienna’, 1929–1938

Eva Branscome

Chapter 8: Diplomacy Under Siege: Belgium’s Diplomatic Patrimony as Political Target during the Boxer Rebellion (1900) and the Lumumba Assassination (1961)

Charlotte Rottiers and Bram De Maeyer

Chapter 9: Social Infrastructure and Disintegration, Statecraft and Democracy. Making an Example of Broadwater Farm Estate

Alfie Peacock

Chapter 10: Germania-on-Thames

Murray Fraser

Chapter 11: The Pornographic Scene of Insurrection. On Disimaging the Architecture of Democracy from the Imagery of the Potemkin Steps to the Reimaging of the Capitol Riot

Nadir Lahiji

Index

Biography

Graham Cairns is an academic and author in the field of architecture who has written extensively on film, advertising and political communication. He has held Visiting Professor positions at universities in Spain, the UK, Mexico, the Gambia, South Africa and the US. He has led academic departments in the UK and the US. He has worked in architectural studios in London and Hong Kong and previously founded and ran a performing arts organisation, Hybrid Artworks, specialised in video installation and performance writing. He is the author and editor of multiple books and articles on architecture as both a form of visual culture and a socio-political construct, including the Routledge volume that preceded this one Reification and Representation – Architecture in the Politico-Media-Complex. He is currently Director of the academic research organisation AMPS (Architecture, Media, Politics, Society), and Executive Editor of its associated journal Architecture_MPS.