Abstract
Power can exist in many forms and permeate deeply in societies; thus, the effects of power can be traced in every domain of the society. Spatial attitudes are important indicators for revealing power games. After all, architecture can be a good tool for actors in potency. The impact of it cannot be underestimated since there is a reciprocal effect between architecture and the society; they transform each other consequently. Exercising power has a wide range of attitudes, which differentiates from domination on one end, and emancipatory approaches on the other end. Every society, every institution, and hierarchical organization have different, yet mostly innate preferences that have a projection on the spaces they use, and the architectural choices they make. In this study, these differences are investigated in terms of publicity and hierarchy, through analyzing the syntactic relations and configurations of political party headquarters which are deliberately built to serve the parties by the authority figures within the parties.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 977-994 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue number | 2 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group on behalf of the Architectural Institute of Japan, Architectural Institute of Korea and Architectural Society of China.
Funding
This paper is the outcome of Mina Hazal Taşcı’s (corresponding author) MSc. study at Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Graduate School, Architectural Design MSc. Programme of which Mehmet Emin Salgamcioglu (Co-Author) is the supervisor. We want to thank to the Democrat Party and the Republican People’s Party officers, and to the deceased Ahmet Vefik Alp and Can Gökoğuz for providing the architectural drawings, and to all parties that allowed us partially inside their buildings. It was an instructive experience about the exercise of power, trying to enter inside the headquarters and conduct our research about political parties when the amount of control is considered. Finally, thanks to Aslı Çekmiş who was interested in the same issue beforehand and by doing so, provided us the source we needed about the architects’ statements and helped us to put a genuine light on the subject from a different angle.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| Istanbul Teknik Üniversitesi |
Keywords
- Architecture and power
- political parties
- political power
- space configuration
- space syntax