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2019 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (professional degree), 20 credits / 30 HE credits
Student thesis
Abstract [en]
This thesis project explores the question of the death of architecture; the declaration of the lost abilities of architecture to achieve political influence and the architect as a social actor. As I have found myself in agreement with this Tafurian perspective on the subject, I wanted to use this thesis project to explore the question of architecture and its political potential, as well as breaking from the paralyzing condition of the incentives of architecture's incapabilities. This, in suggesting that architecture can act as a catalyst for doing things differently. The project investigates, on the one hand, how a building can encourage political action and engagement, and, on the other, how ideological ideas and intentions can concretize spatially, materially and aesthetically, The project is an design exploration concretized in a specific architectural proposal – a building for a political organization operating in the city of Stockholm.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2019. , p. 132
Series
TRITA-ABE-MBT-1973
Keywords [en]
Activism, politics, Marxism, liberalism, agonism, antagonism, Stockholm, Bofills båge, Fatbursparken, tile, concrete, urbanism, Manfredo Tafuri, Chantal Mouffe, Parc de la Villette, Tschumi
National Category
Architecture
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-262838OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-262838DiVA, id: diva2:1362798
Educational program
Master of Architecture - Architecture
Supervisors
Examiners
2019-10-212019-10-212025-02-24Bibliographically approved