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FILIPINOSpace, Power and Political Ideology
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“SPACE is fundamental in any
exercise of power.” - Michel Foucault
"Architecture reveals not only the aesthetic and formal preferences of an architect/client,
but also the aspirations, power struggles and material culture of a society.”
The Relationship
of Architecture and Power
Buildings are not just mere empty or“neutral containers”
•conventions of architecture operate within a system of power relations to perpetuate or transmit social values, which may stand to subvert or support hegemonic power
•Buildings are mechanisms of representation, therefore, they are political and ideological
•Architecture, is also deeply embedded within the structures of power and architects is no free agent and can only act in behalf or based on ideological dictates of the client.
To map the terrain of power discourse embedded in architecture is to
question how architectural program spatial
arrangements and symbolic appropriation/re-presentation of the body operate as apparatuses of
domination and subversions
architecture may become an apparatus for
creating and sustaining power relation independent of the person operating it.
Architecture becomes a form of social controland maintains the asymmetry of power relation
SPACE is not inherently powerful…it is the
politics of spatial usage that governs its power.
“Force, coercion, domination, manipulation,
seduction and authority are forms of everyday
practice which are inevitably facilitated by the
architectural built forms.”
neutral space is manipulated for self-serving political intentions of colonialism, dictatorship, or capitalism.
Architecture and places have symbolic value, which represents the power of the state or capital.
Space becomes an instrument of thought and action, enacting
the struggle over power between the colonial and the
indigenous, between the dominant and the
dominated, between classes and genders.
An analysis of power discoursein architecture can be played out in the following thematic clusters:
• orientation/disorientation
• public/private
• segregation/access
• stability/change
• nature/history
• authenticity/falsity
• dominant/submissive
• place/ideology
CHURCH as the locus of COLONIAL POWER
Plaza Complex
American NEOCLASSICISM colonial power legitimizationand
IMAGING the
tropical empire
Custom House, Cebu, 1911
Capiz Provincial Government Building 1912
City Aquarium, 1912
Fire Station, 1913
Paco Market, 1911
Commonwealth andQuezon’s Vision of a City
Architecture and
Japanese propaganda
EDIFICE COMPLEX andmodern Marcosian
state architecture
The EDIFICE COMPLEX is a syndrome which plagues an individual, nation or corporate institution with an obsession and compulsion to build grand and monumental edifices as a hallmark of a greatness, as a signifier of national prosperity, as a conveyor of an individual’s status, or as a projection of corporate image.
Batasang Pambansa Complex
Philippine International Convention Center 1976
PHILCITE, 1976
Museum of Philippine Traditional Culture
Philtrade, 1978
Population Center
Manila Film Center 1982
ILOCOS NORTE Malacanang of the North Sarrat Museum Sarrat Guest House Batac Museum Batac Guest House Juan Luna Museum Currimao Guest House/Beach House
LA UNION Presidential Guest House in Agoo
PANGASINAN San Fabian Rest House
BULACAN Romualdez Mansion
MANILA Metropolitan Museum Coconut Palace Intramuros Administration Museum National Museum
RIZAL-CAVITE-LAGUNA Bamboo House in Puerto Azul Palace in the Sky, Tagaytay National Arts Center, Mt. Makiling Canlubang Presidential House
ALBAY Presidential Mansion Kagayonan Beach Resort
LEYTE Nipa Hut Olot Rest House People's Center Sto. Nino Shrine Price Mansion Green House Dio Island Resort
When Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, reigned they ordered 29 presidential rest houses to be built
Architecture of resistance:
slumming modernity