Political Architecture: Critical Sustainability

Political Architecture is our object of study. It takes as its point of departure the critical examination of architecture’s complicitous engagement with the willful consolidations, transformations and governing of society by those in power. It looks at relations between architecture and power and it proceeds to ask the question of the political through architecture, aiming at renewing architecture’s engagement with the world – with the weary, the precarious and the red-listed to invite and invent new forms of co-habitation.

What is architecture's role in maintaining, transforming, and disrupting co-habitational orders? What architecture can do reaches beyond policy making. We ask how architecture can engage in complex real-world situations where critical attention to urgent matters of livability, suppression, sustainability, and precarious opportunity are more palpable than ever.