ARCH&UD 30 Lecture 7: Power Reading

• School: UCLA
• Department: Architecture and Urban Design
• Course: ARCH&UD 30
• Professor: Michael Osman

Document Summary

Three notions seem to be essential to an understanding of the architecture of the prince as absolute monarch (at versailles) 1st, the notion of place in its relation to space and time, to space (to landscape and site) and to time (history and historical event) 2nd the notion of power in its historically and philosophically complex relation to representation. 3rd what constitutes perhaps the sense and the essence of the place of power and of the architecture of the princt. That which is a place is order in every sense of the term, the order in which elements are distributed in a relation of coexistence. The architecture of the prince in its place of power constitutes the theatrical scene which institutes and constructs the representation of the royal act as the revelation of the. The monument is first of all and fundamentally a place of memory, of the memory of the hero, of the prince, of the king.