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ARCHITECTURE_MEDIA_POLITICS_SOCIETY is an open access on-line journal dedicated to the study of architecture in the mediated environment of contemporary culture. It seeks to expand an understanding of architecture and the related disciplines of the media, politics and society. It examines architecture as both a reflection of culture and as a driver in its formation. It is published in London, UK, by Architecture_media_politics_society and is edited by Dr. Graham Cairns and Rachel Isaac-Menard.

Established in 2012 it is currently run in affiliation with Ravensbourne (University College), London, and Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. In addition to publishing monthly articles by international authors it operates as a platform for a research project entitled Architecture as Political Image; an investigation into the use of architecture in political campaign imagery in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Journal Theme:
The journal keeps its theme deliberately wide so as to encompass a range of subjects related to architecture. The themes of architecture, media, politics and society are interpreted broadly and articles about the use of architecture in political campaigns in the United States have been published alongside articles about the use of modernist architecture as a political tool in post revolutionary Mexico.

Hosted Projects:
The journal forum operates as a platform for a research project entitled Architecture as Political Image. It is a triangular analysis of the relationship between politics, advertising and architecture. It investigates how images of architecture are used in contemporary election campaigns; as advertising backdrops, sets for photo shoots and even as metaphors in policy arguments.

It focuses on campaigns in the United States and the United Kingdom. It highlights how the strategies used in “political communication” have emerged from the advertising industry and how politics has consequently become a game of images in which architecture has become inextricably linked. The project offers an historical overview of the use of architectural imagery as “political communication” but examines elections in both countries since the end of World War II in more detail. These will be compared to the most recent elections; Obama’s 2008 victory in the US, Cameron’s 2010 victory in the UK and the 2012 US election.

The project uses a system of image analysis outlined in the book; Deciphering Advertising, Art and Architecture, Libri Publishing, London, 2010. According to this system the advertising industry has developed three distinct categories of image communication that he defines as semiotic, post-structural and phenomenological. Each of these systems not only “communicates” in different ways, they are based on a different relationship with their host media; newspapers, television, radio and internet etc.

In the case of the “phenomenological” system, the relationship between the press and advertisers is seen to be potentially undermined by the politico-media-complex. Thus, the analysis of political campaign imagery in the press is examined under the rubric of two concomitant systems; one of which is existent and aligned with political science, whilst the other is more experimental and aligned exclusively with the advertising industry. Beyond being “images” that function as photo opportunities or appropriate associative backdrops, the project suggests that the use of architecture in political campaign imagery often reveals something deeper; a direct relationship with government policy and government supported shifts in design.

It argues that in the US election campaign of 2008 Barack Obama was routinely pictured in front of Neoclassical buildings and stage sets as part of the campaign team’s attempts to counter the principal line of attack of the Republican Party; that the young Senator of Illinois did not have the experience or statesmanship necessary to be President of the United States. Using architectural associations to construct his political image, Obama set in train an approach to architecture that would be repeated once elected; most obviously seen in the “Neoclassical lite” renovation of the Oval office in 2010.

In the UK context this relationship was particularly evident in the years of the Tony Blair Labour governments (1997-2010). For the 1997 campaign Tony Blair used explicit advertising techniques to re-brand his entire party as New Labour. On the very morning of his election victory he used a symbol of Old Labour policies, the Aylesbury housing estate, London, as the landmark from which to launch his “new vision of the future”. Again establishing an approach to architecture in “campaign imagery”, the Blair governments subsequently promoted and supported projects that would reinforce the New Labour image; hence the collaboration between the Labour party and Richard Rogers and the promotion of projects such as Will Alsop’s Michael Faraday Community School on the symbolically important Aylesbury Estate.

Resource Repository:
The journal has a Resource Repository that functions as a source for academics and Information specialists in the areas it covers. It includes an extensive list of current events and activities such as conferences, exhibitions and lectures.

It provides a database of web links to various academic, professional and other on-line forums and sites and, in addition, publishes reviews of books, journals, films and other public material related to the journal’s themes. It is run by an Information Services Committee that consists of information professionals with expertise in the fields of the journal’s remit.

Editorial Policy:
Architecture_media_politics_society publishes papers from academics and professionals on themes related to contemporary and historical architecture and its relationship with media, politics and / or society in its broadest sense. Each month one article will be published on-line. It is subject to double-blind peer review.

Editors:
Dr Graham Cairns. Ravensbourne, UK; Florida State University, USA Rachel Isaac-Menard. Concordia University, Canada.

Editorial Committee:
Prof. Arch. Richard Moreta Castillo. President: Green Container International Aid, President: Dominican College of Architects, Dominican Republic; Prof. Layton Reid. Interior Design, Environment Architectures/Architecture, Faculty of Design Constructed and Virtual Environment Design, Ravensbourne, London, UK; Prof. Lisa K. Waxman. Professor, Department of Interior Design, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA; Zakaria Sillah. Architect: Managing Director, Master Plan, President: Association of Gambian Architects, Banjul,The Gambia; Prof. Joel Olivares. Director: Universidad Gestalt de Diseño, Xalapa, Veracruz, México; Prof. Puay-peng Ho. Professor and Director, School of Architecture, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong; Professor, Dr. Minakshi Jain. Department of Architecture, National Institute of Technology, Hamirupur, India; Dr Edward M. Clift. Dean, School of Media, Culture & Design, Woodbury University, USA; Prof. Dr. Arq. Jorge Peña Díaz. Director: Facultad de Arquitectura, La Habana, Cuba; Graeme Brooker. Chair: Interior Educators, University of Brighton, UK; Prof. Dr. Ing. Andrea Haase. Hochschule Anhalt: Analt University of Applied Sciences; Fachbereich Architektur, Facility Management und Geoinformation, Germany; Prof. M. en arq. Maella Minaksi González Cetz. Facultad de Arquitectura de la Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, México; Ibai Rigby. Project Coordinator – Historic Cities Programme, Aga Khan Trust for Culture, Geneva, Switzerland; Prof. Dr. Ayşegül Kuruç. Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Faculty of Architecture: Interior Design, Istanbul, Turkey; Steve Edge. Head on Interior Design, Leeds College of Art, UK; Dr. Fernando N. Winfield. Faculty of Architecture, University of Veracruz, Mexico; Nicholas Champkins. Course Director, British Higher School of Art and Design, Moscow, Russia; Prof. Bertha Johnson. Course Director: Community Design and Building, University of the Gambia, Banjul, The Gambia; Prof. Dr. Arq. Hugo Farias. Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal; Dr. Spyridon Papadopoulos. Professor of Architecture, University of Tesalia, Greece ; Andrew Stone. Deputy Dean, Faculty of Art, Architecture & Design, London Metropolitan University, UK; Prof. Silke Kapp. Escola de Arquitetura – Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Kirsty Matte. School of Architecture and Design, University of Tasmania, Australia; Prof. Kathrin Golda-Pongratz. Faculty of Architecture and Construction, University of Applied Sciences in Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Dr Janet McGaw, Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design, Melbourne School of Design, Australia; Dr. Arq. Juan Calatrava Escobar. Catedrático, Escuela de Arquitectura, Universidad de Granada, Spain; Mark Hanna. Programme Leader FdSc Architectural Studies, University of Derby, UK; Lois Weisentahl. Chair of the School of Interior Design, Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada; Paul Cooper. Head of Department – Critical Studies, Greenside College of Design, South Africa; Arne DeBoever. Director, MA Program in Aesthetics and Politics, California Institute of the Arts, USA; Dr. Arq. Carlos García Vázquez. Universidad. E.T.S. Arquitectura, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain; Frazer Macdonald Hay. Director GSofA, Singapore Insititute of Technology, Singapore; Raul Rodriguez de Torres. Director of Interior Design, Escuela Superior de Diseño de Madrid, Spain; Eike Sindlinger. Senior Architect & Urban Designer, Arup, UK; Dr. Gennaro Postiglione. Associate Professor in Interior Architecture, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; George Verghese. Dean, Faculty of Design, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada; Amanda Breytenbach. HoD: Interior Design, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, University of Johannesburg, South Africa; Dr David Cunningham. Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, University of Westminster, UK; Alfonso Magaz. Architect, Institution / studio: Re-architecture, Spain; Thomas Kong. Visiting Associate Professor, Dept of Architecture, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Joel Towers. Dean of Parsons: The New School For Design, New York, USA

Official Website:
http://www.architecturemps.com

External Links:
http://archidose.blogspot.co.uk http://www.archnewsnow.com http://www.dezain.net/en http://www.archdaily.com