| Abstrakt: |
In "Three Ideas of Emptiness", Tipene argues that the Commonwealth Government was uncertain if architecture should have anything at all to say about the state or its democratic foundations. The phrases "state architecture" and "architecture of the state" today might be understood to refer not to buildings at all, but to the formal arrangements of power in sovereign states; the composition of a representative assembly, for example, and the relationship between the judiciary and the executive; the role of the bureaucracy and ministers of state and other such arrangements that define who can legitimately exercise state power. Architecture is one of the ways in which states represent themselves to their citizens or political subjects and to other states. [Extracted from the article] |
