Name: Plenum. Places of Power
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ISBN: 9783038216797

Die Idee einer demokratischen Legitimation von Macht ist heute so weit verbreitet, dass keine Nation mehr darauf verzichten kann, zumindest dem Namen nach einen solchen Ort zur repräsentativen Versammlung des Volkes zu errichten. Der Katalog zum österreichischen Beitrag der Architekturbiennale in Venedig dokumentiert alle nationalen Parlamente der Welt anhand axonometrischer Darstellungen, ergänzt durch Lagepläne, eine Kurzbeschreibung und weitere relevante Daten. In der Auffächerung und Gegenüberstellung der verschiedenen Lösungen wird anschaulich, welche Botschaften die Architektur im Fall des Parlamentsgebäudes übermitteln soll: nationale Identität, ewige Dauer, Konformität mit historischen Leitbildern – oder auch die furiose Darstellung eines Neubeginns. Die teils mehr, teils weniger geglückte Monumentalität dieser Gebäude verliert in der alphabetisch geordneten, analytisch gleichen Darstellung an Gewicht und bringt so zahlreiche formale Ähnlichkeiten der Bauten ans Licht, die höchst unterschiedliche politische Regime repräsentieren sollen.

Parliaments are both representative assemblies of the people and monuments of political and national identity. This catalogue for the Austrian contribution to the 14th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice features 196 national parliaments of the world. It fans out a comparison of the various messages to be conveyed by the architecture of parliament buildings: perpetuity, conformity with historical precedents or the fervent manifestation of a new beginning. However, neatly ordered by name and presented in a homogeneous fashion, their monumentality is somewhat lessened. The cold light of analysis brings forward numerous formal similarities of buildings that serve completely different political regimes.

Architecture: public, commercial and industrial buildings

City and town planning: architectural aspects

Plenum. Places of Power

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     The parliaments of parliamentsParliaments are both representative assemblies of the people and monuments of political and national identity. This catalogue for the Austrian contribution to the 14th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice features 196 national parliaments of the world. It fans out a comparison of the various messages to be conveyed by the architecture of parliament buildings: perpetuity, conformity with historical precedents or the fervent manifestation of a new beginning. However, neatly ordered by name and presented in a homogeneous fashion, their monumentality is somewhat lessened. The cold light of analysis brings forward numerous formal similarities of buildings that serve completely different political regimes.      All of the national parliamentary buildings in the world in a concise representation  Presented in sections for ease of comparison  A current contribution to the debate on the crisis of representation

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Plenum. Places of Power

Edited by: Christian Kühn