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The papers in the ‘architecture + politics’ session deal with a variety of topics from theoretical associations between architecture and politics, to the practical connection between the two. Some papers are concerned with the relationship of governmental politics to architectural planning and design. Others deal with the political insinuation of architectural styles, another on political lobbying. The relationship between architect+ critic + historian is dealt with by a number of the speakers. Papers on the politics of ‘decorum’ and ‘appropriation’ conclude the session.

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Barbara Cadeddu, Maddalena Mameli & Anna Franca Sibiriu
Autarchy and City in Italy Between the World Wars: the case of Carbonia, Sardinia

Michael Chapman & Michael Ostwald
Laying Siege to the Stadtkrone: Nietzsche, Taut and the vision of a Cultural Aristocracy

Kim Dovey
Architectural Insinuations: on the waterfront with NFK, ARM, DCM, LAB

Maryam Gusheh
Monumentality and Spectacle: Giedion and Kahn

Peter Kohane & Michael Hill
The Decorum of Doors and Windows, Fifteenth – Nineteenth Century

Paul Hogben
Making the Profession Speak: political lobbying and architecture

Andrew Leach
‘Everything we do is but the larva of our intentions’: Manfredo Tafuri and Storia dell’architettura italiana 1944-1985

Robin Skinner
A Search for Authority: the sketch design of the Beehive

Chris L. Smith
The Habit and its Fictions: analogy and the appropriate(d) body of architecture

Susan Stewart
Phronesis, Praxis and Techne: the politics of Sir Henry Wotton's distinction between architect and critic.

A. Krista Sykes
A Portrait of the Scholar as a Truffle Dog: a re-evaluation of Vincent Scully

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