Power

• Conditions of Culture to Exist

  Society, order, ideals
• Identity of culture #1


  Culture is shared among a group of people
• Identity of culture #2


  Culture is agreed upon by the group
• Identity of culture #3

  Culture represents a group's notion of the ideal life
• Society


  a group of people sharing the same culture
• Institutions


  complex established self-producing organizations or systems within society with roles or purpose
• Function of Social Institution #1

  Provide basic services
• Function of Social Institution #2

  Structure society (timetable and rules)
• Function of Social Institution #3

  generate and preserve behavior
• Architectural design aids


  social institutions in its function: to provide basic services, structure society and generate behavior
• Latin word for power

  potere
• english meaning of power

  capacity to
• Example of institution


  family, education, religion, finance, government and health
• Another meaning of power other than capacity to

  control over others
• Social order


  the state of stability and consensus that exists in the absence of chaos and upheaval
• social order 2


  is present when individuals agree to a shared social contract
• Forms of Power


  Force, coercion, manipulation, seduction, authority
• Force


  overt exercise of power which strips subjects of any choice of noncompliance
• Coercion


  threat or force to secure compliance, operates under the cover of volunteerism
• Manipulation


  form of coercion by keeping subject ignorant thereby removing resistance
• Seduction


  constructs the identity, interest and desires of the subject
• Authority

  embedded in institution, acknowledged by subjects, focus is provision of common good and building culture
• Goal for social order to continue

  the majority of society has to comply
• Power to


  approval, acceptance, access
• Power over

  force, coercion, manipulation, seduction, authority
• Imagery of power

  figure, rituals, resources, communication, plac
• Aim of legitimization

  highlight the power to uphold the public interest
• Built tools

  tools to legitimize
• Power in Institutional context

  Power exist to create social order
• Architecture in Institutional context

  a legitimizing tool to demonstrate power
• Dialectics of Power

  1. Orientation/ Disorientation 2. Publicity/ Privacy 3. Segregation/ Access 4. Nature/ History 5. Stability/ Change 6. Authentic/ Fake 7. Identity/ Difference 8. Dominance/ Docility 9. Place/ Ideology
• Orientation/ Disorientation 


  It constructs a cognitive map through which we imagine our world and give it our attention.
• Elements to orient people

  repetitive linear elements with clear pathways
• Elements to provide freedom of movement

  diagonal asymmetrical shapes and volumes that evoke interest.