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Architecture and Ideology

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MONIKA JOVANOVIĆ, PhD student<br />

Interdisciplinary studies, University of Arts in Belgrade, monika.z.jovanovic@gmail.com<br />

TYPOLOGICAL PATTERNS OF HOUSING AND PUBLIC<br />

STRUCTURES DERIVING FROM IDEOLOGY<br />

Abstract |<br />

In this paper my focus will be on the relation between biopolitics <strong>and</strong> architecture as well as on<br />

the role of architecture in forming national, racial, class, political, behavioural, moral, <strong>and</strong><br />

family identities <strong>and</strong> codes.<br />

<strong>Architecture</strong> as an interdisciplinary political social science <strong>and</strong> practice is determined by<br />

relations <strong>and</strong> synthesis between humanities, technical sciences, designing, building <strong>and</strong><br />

planning. By developing <strong>and</strong> acquiring complexity of its own language within historical <strong>and</strong><br />

geographical societies in which it emerges, architecture is not just an indicator of a certain<br />

society’s situation, but one of the primary constituents of its relations <strong>and</strong> regulations<br />

(Pojmovnik teorije umetnosti, Šuvaković, 2011.). Therefore, based on the architectural<br />

language of a historical moment, regarding existing or non‐existing typological patterns by<br />

which it is made, it is possible to do an analysis of the overall structure of society of that<br />

moment.<br />

Leaning on the theoretical platform of Michel Foucault (1978.), Hannah Arendt (1958.) <strong>and</strong><br />

Tamara Đorđević (2010.) I will analyse the typological patterns of the middle class family<br />

housing in western Europe throughout the 20th century, towards emerging typological<br />

patterns of today with the aim of acknowledging the transformation of the structure of the<br />

middle class family <strong>and</strong> its eventual disappearance.<br />

By identifying the present language of architecture of capitalist society in housing typologies I<br />

will identify architecture’s biopolitical function in forming contemporary private life <strong>and</strong><br />

everyday reality.<br />

Key words |<br />

biopolitics, architecture, housing typology, private life, family identities <strong>and</strong> codes

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