Posted by  Paul Malo on June 22, 2002 at 19:08:29:

In Reply to:  Re: "architecture of control"...? posted by Shwan on June 22, 2002 at 09:36:19:

Saddam's propgandistic monument is a case in point: clearly the client and the designer did have a psychological intent--as your analysis itself suggests. So, again, the issue is not whether architects are indifferent to psychology. It's rather a matter of preference about the psychological agenda involved.

Remember that architects have always served Power--the glory of the medieval cathedral is not merely the glorification of God, but an assertion of the power of the church.

T'was ever thus.

If the argument is that the architect should be an advocate of the powerless, not a tool of the powerful, that is again a normative issue involving values. It's a matter of ideology, NOT a question of the architect's sensitivity to psychology.

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