This isn’t a new phenomenon for 2017–see Tiananmen Square, North Korea’s totalitarian buildings, Nazi architect Albert Speer. But this year we were reminded of architecture’s enduring power to be used as political propaganda thanks to Trump’s proposed border wall. — Fast Co Design
Architecture has played a fundamental role in the propagandized rhetoric of the Trump Administration. The aim of any kind of propaganda is to promote an idea or an ideology, and Trump and his administration have used architecture to promote their own program and ideology with an unquestionable emphasis on nationalism.
How are we to look forward and discuss this appropriation of a discipline, history and study as a tool for biased and demeaning indoctrination and publicity?
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It’s no surprise arch is used as propoganda, a product of the narrative over substance based new media
remember when architecture was respected across the political spectrum and in media? now “architecture” is only defined by social narrative as written by lobbyists for the far right or far left on toxic social media— as if this even qualifies as architecture (not really) but misguided infrastructure (or propoganda, though its supporters wouldn’t concede that)
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