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Political Architecture: Projects, Journals & Ideas

34 Projects 14 Journals 5 Publications 11 Competitions

About Discussions Projects34 Journals14 Publications5 Competitions11

Political architecture examines how the built environment reflects and shapes power structures, governance, and collective identity. Designers working in this space use architecture as a tool to address conflict, commemorate history, and propose alternatives to existing systems.

The community explores memorials and counter-memorials that challenge conventional narratives, housing solutions for displaced populations, rehabilitation-focused infrastructure, and designs that facilitate reconciliation and coexistence across divided communities.

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Mohamed El-kurdi1 work

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Zeynep Özge and Kardelen

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DASEIN, Behind The Wall

Humanity lost the meaning of home and get homeless, rootless. We are the ones that search for its true meaning.

Artur and Ania

Paradaijah

The word paradise comes from Proto-Iranian Paradaijah, meaning walled enclosure. Project propose to erect a wall from ruins of devastated Aleppo, to invite water and plants inside, as a metaphor of revival and realm of peace. Meanwhile the modern reinterpretation of traditional arches stimulates public life and offers a place to play, trade and meet.

Mohamed

The Non-Memorial

This project aims to transcend traumatic memory imposed in the physical monumental space, by creating a space for social reconciliation through storytelling. Embracing the scars of war and subtly subverting these memories of war into beams of hope.

AHMED

AL-KHASFA MEMORIAL MUSEUM

Al-Khasfa Memorial Museum is a memorial architecture project dedicated to preserving the memory of the victims of ISIS atrocities at Al-Khasfa, one of Iraq’s most devastating sites of mass execution, where approximately 20,000 people are believed to have lost their lives. More than a conventional museum, the project is conceived as an architectural act of re

Hamid and Ilsa

A Tribute to Ukrainian Resilience

This memorial design is a temporary installation that celebrates Ukrainian resilience. The main source of inspiration for this concept are the Ukrainian artists. This design is an exploration of how an interactive mural can help Ukrainians cope with loss and conflict.

Michal

BETA: THE PATH OF TOMORROW

A place to escape from reality, not just a building, it is the main square, a public space, a place to gather, a place far away from all the political and religious issues where everyone finds a place for themselves in it.

Abdallah and 3 others

Co-Existence

Our project proposes the reshaping of one of the important sites of the city center of Aleppo into a plaza that re-gathers people for social and cultural interactions. The design concept is to create an urban void that shapes a transitional space where visitors can experience the continuity of time, from the past into the future.

jay

Garden of Reconciliation. Kashmir- Conflict and the Architectural Practice

This thesis looks at the conflicted area of Kashmir. The thesis analyses various cultural practices and the positions taken by them in this conflicted region to then see for oneself the position best suited for an architectural practice. This knowledge would then inform the choice of program, site and the architecture itself that the program requires.

Phakin

Khlong San District Office

"Public Space as a Democratic Infrastructure" As our viewpoints become more and more polarized than ever, correlates with the rise of digital interaction that reinforces us into the false consensus. Combined with Bangkok’s already insufficient public spaces. This thesis looks into the question of to what extent can architecture be a part of the solution?

Fatiha Tanjim

Beyond Rediscovery: Reclaiming Alijan Jute Mill as a Living Productive Landscape

This project transforms Narsingdi’s colonial-period Alijan Jute Mill into a river-resilient, worker-centered heritage district. Using New Contextualism, it blends production, housing, culture, and commerce into an active urban system, reconnecting the Meghna riverfront through adaptive reuse and sustainable urban regeneration.

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UNI

publishedBlog5 months ago

Future Prison: Circular Architecture That Treats Incarceration as a Rehabilitation Loop

A shortlisted competition entry layers private, public, and semi-public zones into a cyber-integrated correctional facility built for reintegration.

Dystopian Architecture

Switching Prisons

UNI

publishedStory5 months ago

Gate Between Past and Future: Rebuilding Aleppo's Civic Heart Through Layered Memory

A public square in war-scarred Aleppo stitches collective memory into stone, water, and indigenous planting to reconnect a fractured city with its 5,000-ye

Aleppo

Cultural Architecture

UNI

publishedBlog5 months ago

Condensation Park: Modular Refugee Housing That Treats Openness as Therapy

A vertical timber framework replaces the refugee camp model with communal parks, elevated walkways, and a central Hope Tree as anchor.

Refugee Camp

Cultural Architecture

UNI Editorial

publishedStory1 year ago

Horse House Stable by Wiercinski Studio: A Modern Interpretation of Rural Tradition

Horse House Stable blends raw aesthetics and functionality, using sustainable materials, natural light, and thoughtful design to create a harmonious space.

Sustainable Design

Architecture