21575nam a22004577a 4500 pucpr 20250929164256.0 250929b |||aoeb| |||| 001 0 eng d 9781800085350 pucpr eng pucpr pucpr rda CARIBET NA4195 P37 2023 23 725.11 Paskins, Jacob 302533 Parliament buildings : the architecture of politics in Europe. / edited by Jacob Paskins, Sophia Psarra, and Martina Vellutini. txt London : UCL Press, 2023. 420 p. : ill. ; col. ; plans ; maps ; 24 cm. book rdacontent text txt rdamedia unmediaded n rdacarrier volume nc Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents : 1 Introduction: parliament buildings and the architecture of politics in Europe Sophia Psarra, Uta Staiger and Claudia Sternberg -- Part I: Rhythms of time and space : 2 Making use of space: the unseen impact of mixing informally Philip Norton -- 3 Rhythms of navigating time and space in the UK House of Commons Emma Crewe -- 4 The ephemeral architecture of socioenvironmental practices in the UK Houses of Parliament, 1836–1966 Henrik Schoenefeldt -- 5 Inhabiting the Palais Bourbon together: sharing, allocating and regulating parliamentary space among its multiple users at the French National Assembly Jonathan Chibois -- Part II: A contemporary parliament in a historical building : 6 Trapping the architectural imagination: restoration, renewal and denial at Westminster Matthew Flinders -- 7 ‘It was as though a spell has been cast on them’: the relationship between the Palace of Westminster and the UK Parliament Alexandra Meakin -- 8 Symbolic representation in public space, and the UK Parliament’s corporate identities Alex Prior -- 9 The UK Parliament as a historical space for women Mari Takayanagi -- 10 Parliament and the language of political agency in Disraeli’s ‘Young England’ trilogy: a corpus linguistic approach Sam Griffiths and Alexander von Lünen -- Part III: The material structure of parliaments : 11 The Palace of Westminster and the Reichstag building: spatial form and political culture Sophia Psarra and Gustavo Maldonado Gil -- 12 Consensus democracy by glass and concrete? The architecture of German state parliaments Patrick Theiner and Julia Schwanholz -- 13 The architecture of political representation: a historiographical review Remieg Aerts and Carla Hoetink -- Part IV: Political transitions and constructions of legitimacy : 14 Architectures of power and the Romanian transition: from the House of the Republic to the Palace of the Parliament Gruia Bădescu and Iulia Stătică -- 15 ‘Make it look more democratic, Mikhail Mikhailovich!’ Potemkin parliamentarism and the project to redesign the Russian State Duma Michał Murawski and Ben Noble -- 16 Absorbing Cold War heritage: from a Stalinist skyscraper to a seat of EU democracy? Aneta Vasileva and Emilia Kaleva -- 17 Barra (Get Out)! Agency for public resistance at the Parliament of Malta Andrew Borg Wirth and Michael Zerafa -- Part V: Mediated parliament and digital interactions : 18 Mediating politics and architecture: the European Parliament from television to the digital age Pol Esteve Castelló and Dennis Pohl 19 Knife edge: Abingdon Street Gardens and its field of vision James Benedict Brown -- 20 Continuous virtual surveillance in a new space? Monitory democracy at Westminster Ben Worthy and Stefani Langehennig -- Part VI: The spatial production of assemblies : 21 Shaping and expressing politics: a comparative study of national parliament buildings in the European Union Naomi Gibson, Sophia Psarra and Gustavo Maldonado Gil -- 22 From Thing to revolutionary assembly: architectural systems of gathering Harald Trapp -- 23 Dynamics of an architectural framing, parliamentary debates and the Palace of Westminster Gordana Korolija -- 24 Degrees of opposition and cooperation: how seating plans and parliament layouts reflect and give rise to political cultures Kerstin Sailer -- Part VII: Sovereignty, scale and languages of representation : 25 Peripheral parliament: sovereignty, Indigenous rights and political representation in the architecture of the Sámi Parliament of Finland Samuel Singler and Sofia Singler -- 26 Forms of parliamentarism in modern Greece and their architectural–spatial reflections: convergence, debate, imposition Amalia Kotsaki -- 27 The opening ceremony of the Swedish Riksdag Tormod Otter Johansen -- PART VIII: Building parliaments for the future Guest editor Jeremy Melvin : 28 Introduction to Part VIII Jeremy Melvin -- 29 Westminster, its Palace and the House of Commons: an outline of the House of Commons chamber and its context Jeremy Melvin -- 30 Touchstones for a twenty-first-century parliamentary building: a temporary chamber for the House of Commons, UK Paul Monaghan – Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM) -- 31 Integrating the building into the land: the Scottish Parliament Benedetta Tagliabue – Miralles Tagliabue EMBT -- 32 A continuation with history and a significant new experience: the Reichstag in BerlinDavid Nelson – Foster and Partners -- 33 A natural gathering place: the National Assembly for Wales – the Senedd, 1998–2004 Ivan Harbour – RSHP -- Index -- List of Figure : 1.1 Crowd of Donald Trump supporters marching on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 2 -- 1.2 View east from the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, under the Nazi regime 3 -- 1.3 A session of the Swiss National Council 6 -- 1.4 A European Union ceremony in the Strasbourg semicircle 7 -- 1.5 Section of a working women’s picket: a suffrage procession 10 -- 1.6 Scene around the National Assembly of Bangladesh in Dhaka 11 -- 1.7 The parliament houses of Canberra, the new house in the foreground, looking towards the old house in the background 15 -- 1.8 The parliament buildings in Astana, Kazakhstan 17 -- 2.1 Portcullis House Interior Café 36 -- 3.1 Lifting the lid 50 -- 3.2 Shapeshifting 52 -- 3.3 MPs responding to different audiences 53 -- 4.1 Photograph showing attendants and valves in the interior of the air chamber below the House of Commons 66 -- 4.2 Floor plan of principal floor showing the debating chambers, lobbies and the offices of the operational staff 67 -- 4.3 Interior of House of Commons chamber, 1869, showing open windows inside clerestory -- 70 -- 4.4 Sociotechnical network, House of Commons, 1854 –1941 72 -- 5.1 Serment du Jeu de PaumeàVersailles le 19 juin 1789, 1792 81 -- 5.2 Simplified diagram of the circulation patterns regarding the so-called ‘separation of movement’ of the users of the Palais Bourbon as recreated by the ethnographer during his fieldwork 83 -- 5.3 Examples of various badges worn by the ethnographer during his research at the French National Assembly 85 -- 6.1 The Palace of Westminster from the River after the Fire of 1834 99 -- 6.2 Speculating a pop-up parliament 106 -- 7.1 The Elizabeth Tower, undergoing vital restoration work in 2018 118 -- 8.1 Houses of Parliament [unfinished], oil on canvas 123 -- 8.2 Westminster Hall, oil on canvas 128 -- 9.1 Sketch of a ventilator in Ladies’ Gallery Attic in St Stephens, 1834 135 -- 9.2 The Ladies’ Gallery, Illustrated London News, 1870 137 -- 9. 3 New Dawn, sculpture 142 -- 10.1 Frontispiece of 1904 Brimly and Johnson edition of Coningsby 148 -- 10.2 The Palace of Westminster under scaffolding in 1842 151 -- 10.3 Plot showing incidence of ‘parliament’ in all Disraeli’s completed novels excluding Contarini Fleming (1832) 155 -- 10.4 Speeches in Parliament 2019 referencing Sybil 160 -- 11.1 The Palace of Westminster and the Reichstag 169 -- 11.2 The House of Commons and the Reichstag chambers 170 -- 11.3 Three layouts and their corresponding graphs 175 -- 11.4 Permeability integration in the Reichstag and the Palace of Westminster 177 -- 11.5 Permeability integration of entire buildings: the Palace of Westminster and the Reichstag 178-- 11.6 Permeability and visibility integration of the Reichstag 180 -- 11.7 Palace of Westminster: a, b, c, d spaces; graph with a, b, c, d spaces superimposed on the ground floor plan; graph justified from the entrance 183 -- 11.8 The Reichstag: a, b, c, d spaces; graph with a, b, c, d spaces superimposed on the ground floor plan; graph justified from the entrance 184 -- 11.9a View from the rostrum, the Palace of Westminster and the Reichstag 186 -- 11.9b Computational script for calculating and visualising views from every seat and their overlaps highlighted in colour according to intensity from high (red) to low (blue) 187 -- 11.10 Proportional representation of a, b, c, d spaces at the Palace of Westminster and the Reichstag 187 -- 11.11a The Reichstag, overlapping views from every seat and proportional representation for each party 188 -- 11.11b The House of Commons, overlapping views from every seat and proportional representation for each party 189 -- 12.1 Schwerin Castle, seat of the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Schwerin 198 -- 12.2 Plenary hall of the state parliament of Brandenburg, Potsdam 200 -- 12.3 State parliament of Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 201 -- 13.1 Plenary hall of the French Assemblée Nationale, Paris 213 -- 14.1 View (1989) towards the House of the Republic, today the Romanian Palace of the Parliament 225 -- 14.2 View (1989) from the balcony of the House of the Republic, today the Romanian Palace of the Parliament, towards the Victory of Socialism Avenue, today Union Boulevard 225 -- 14.3 Anti-corruption protest in front of the Palace of the Parliament, January 2018 233 -- 15.1 The current headquarters of the State Duma, adjacent to Manezh Square in the centre of Moscow 238 -- 15.2 View of the fire-damaged ‘White House’, the headquarters of the predecessor to the State Duma –the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation 239 -- 15.3 Russian President Vladimir Putin making a speech at a plenary session of the State Duma, 10 March 2020 242 -- 15.4 Screenshot from Ekaterina Schulmann’s 14 March 2017 Facebook video 243 -- 16.1 The Largo of Sofia in the 1970s 252 -- 16.2 The Bulgarian Communist party headquarters in the 1960s–70s 254 -- 16.3 The building of the Bulgarian parliament until 2020 and then from 2021 onwards 256 -- 16.4 Sketch of Mario Botta’s competition entry for the parliament in Sofia 258 -- 16.5 The original interior of the ‘Georgi Kirkov’ hall in 2011 259 -- 16.6 Second prize entry of ‘Tilev Architects’ in the 2011 competition 260 -- 16.7 First prize entry of ‘Niconsult’ in the 2011 competition 260 -- 17.1 Photos posted on Instagram by authors 264 -- 17.2 Direct confrontation between protesters and the considerable police presence at the protest in front of the parliament building in Valletta, Malta 266 -- 17.3 Crowds encircled by barriers and police presence in front of the parliament building, 2019 267 -- 17.4 Schematic map of the gridiron complex in which the parliament is placed and where the protests took place 268 -- 17.5 The growing presence of physical barriers and police presence in Valletta, against the backdrop of the visibly permeable ground floor of the parliament building, 2019 270 -- 17.6 Large protests around the parliament building in Valletta, Malta, in reaction to revelations around the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia, 2019 272 -- 18.1 Remote Vinten television camera in the Plenary Hall 281 -- 18.2 Audiovisual facilities in Strasbourg, 1994 282 -- 18.3 Protests in the background of Ronald Reagan’s speech in the EP in Strasbourg on 8 May 1985 284 -- 18.4 TV set in the interior of the European Parliament 288 -- 18.5 Screenshot of Antonio Tajani, President of the EP, in a Facebook Live discussion with citizens, 1 June 2019 289 -- 18.6 Inaugural event of the Conference on the Future of Europe in the EP in Strasbourg on 9 May 20212 91 -- 18.7 View of an editing room in the EP in Brussels 292 -- 19.1 Still from the title sequence of The Prisoner 302 -- 19.2 Still from the title sequence of The Prisoner 302 -- 19.3 Abingdon Street Gardens, Westminster 304 -- 19.4 Knife Edge Two Piece 305 -- 19.5 A journalist prepares for a live outside broadcast from Abingdon Street Gardens, with Knife Edge Two Piece and the Victoria Tower of the Palace of Westminster beyond 308 -- 20.1 View of Big Ben 312 -- 21.1 Plan diagrams of the 28 plenary halls 328 -- 21.2 Government–legislature relationships: a diagram of emerging spatial typologies 331 -- 21.3 Government–legislature relationships across Europe 333 -- 21.4 Visual connectivity within the plenary halls of Belgium, the UK and Slovenia, alongside density of high- and low-visibility areas 337 -- 21.5 Visual connectivity within the plenary halls of the Netherlands, Germany and Estonia, alongside density of high- and low-visibility areas 338 -- 21.6 Comparing the views of speaking members in the UK and Belgian chambers 340 -- 21.7 Comparing the views of the chair in the UK and Belgian chambers 3412 -- 2.1Diagrammatic reconstruction of a Teutonic Thing 3492 -- 2.2 Site plan of Comitium and Curia Julia (44–29 BC), Rome 351-- 22.3 Salle des Menus Plaisirs, Versailles, on 5 May 1789 and on 23 June 1789 352 -- 22.4 Venues of Assembly, Versailles and Paris, 1789–1798, site plan354 -- 22.5 Salle du Manège, Paris, on 9 November 1789, floor plan 355 -- 22.6 Salle des Machines, Paris, May 1793, floor plan 356 -- 22.7 Champ des Mars, Paris, on 14 July 1790, floor plan 358 -- 22.8 Palais Bourbon, Paris, 1798, floor plan 359 -- 23.1 The Frankfurt parliament in Frankfurt’s Paulskirche in 1848/49 367 -- 23.2 The circular shape of the European Parliament where parties spread and link radially from left-wing to the right-wing parties, all converging to one centre 368 -- 23.3 The oppositional arrangement of parliamentary seating where governmental majority and opposition minority parties sit confrontationally 370 -- 24.1 -- Definition of spatial closeness in the European Parliament in Brussels 378 -- 24.2 Seating plan of the Bundestag (German parliament) overlaid with 120° isovists for the first four rows of parliamentarians 379 -- 24.3 Seating plan of the UK House of Commons overlaid with 120° isovists for the first two rows of parliamentarians 380 -- 24.4 Seating plan of the Brussels European Parliament by political grouping 382 -- 24.5 Seating plan of the Brussels European Parliament by country 384 -- 25.1 HALO Architects, Sajos, Inari, 2012. Exterior view, south elevation 392 -- 25.2 HALO Architects, Sajos, Inari, 2012. Foyer 396 -- 25.3 HALO Architects, Sajos, Inari, 2012. North wall 397 -- 25.4 HALO Architects, Sajos, Inari, 2012. Parliamentary assembly chamber 400 -- 25.5 HALO Architects, Sajos, Inari, 2012. Ground floor plan 402 -- 26.1Interior of the Old Parliament House in Athens 410 -- 26.2 Greek Parliament swearing-in ceremony, 14 October 2009 411 -- 26.3 Plan of the Ionian Parliament 413 -- 26.4 Plan of the Parliament of the Principality of Sa mos 413 -- 27.1 Silver throne and regalia 419 -- 27.2 Wives of ambassadors 420 -- 27.3 Serafim order knights in front of court ladies 420 -- 27.4 Marshal of the Realm, king with prime minister and foreign minister 421 -- 27.5Charles XI’s Trabants in stomping march 422 -- 27.6 King reads crown speech 422 -- 27.7 Music corps 423 -- 27.8 View from behind the speaker’s podium 424 -- 27.9 King, speaker, prince and prime minister chat on an escalator 424 -- 27.10 ‘The King’s Song’ is played and sung 425 -- 27.11 King declares Riksdag session opened 425 -- 27.12 Prime minister gives policy statement 426 -- 29.1 Westminster Hall in the Palace of Westminster, London 444 -- 29.2 Floor plan of the Palace of Westminster prior to the 1834 fire 449 -- 29.3 Aerial view of the Palace of Westminster from the London Eye 452 -- 30.1 Illustrative aerial view of Parliament’s Northern Estate, including Richmond House 456 -- 30.2 Illustrative view looking from the Cenotaph towards the retained Whitehall façade 458 -- 30.3 Illustrative view of Richmond House next to the existing Norman Shaw North building459 -- 30.4 Illustrative view of the proposed members’ entrance to Richmond House from Canon Row 460 -- 30.5 Illustrative view of the proposed central lobby at Richmond House 461 -- 30.6 Illustrative view of the proposed temporary House of Commons chamber 462 -- 30.7 Illustrative view of the proposed rooftop pavilion at Richmond House 463 -- 31.1 The Scottish Parliament and Edinburgh, facing the Palace of Holyroodhouse 466 -- 31.2 The Parliament and the Salisbury Crags 466 -- 31.3 Stairs descending to the garden lobby and meeting place 467 -- 31.4 Integrating the parliament building into the landscape 469 -- 31.5 The bay windows to the MSPs’ private offices, each with a distinctly individual expression 470 -- 31.6 Inside the chamber, the timber ghosts of upturned boats sheltering the MSPs’ seats below 471 -- 31.7 Canongate and the concrete mural by artist Soraya Smithson 471 -- 32.1 The Reichstag building today 474 -- 32.2 The Reichstag building at the turn of the twentieth century 475 -- 32.3 The Reichstag plenary hall, 1903 476 -- 32.4 The new weaves through the historic fabric of the interior spaces 478 -- 32.5 Graffiti from the end of the Second World War preserved within the Reichstag 479 -- 32.6 Protesters and wallpickers at the Berlin Wall by the Reichstag 480 -- 32.7 Floor plan for the Reichstag with the plenary hall at the heart of the building 481 -- 33.1 Competition drawing 484 -- 33.2 People gather on the steps of the Senedd 485 -- 33.3 The debating chamber public viewing gallery 486 -- 33.4 Interior view of the public space around the debating chamber funnel 487 -- 33.5 Watching the Assembly from a public viewing gallery -- List of Tables : 6.1 Adversarial design as a third-order focus 101 -- 12.1 Overview of German parliamentary buildings 204 -- 24.1 Numbers of MEPs in total as well as by country, including average group sizes of those close/distant and from same/other countries; and resulting Yule’s Q 383 -- As political polarisation undermines confidence in the shared values and established constitutional orders of many nations, it is imperative that we explore how parliaments are to stay relevant and accessible to the citizens whom they serve. The rise of modern democracies is thought to have found physical expression in the staged unity of the parliamentary seating plan. However, the built forms alone cannot give sufficient testimony to the exercise of power in political life. Parliament Buildings brings together architecture, history, art history, history of political thought, sociology, behavioural psychology, anthropology and political science to raise a host of challenging questions. How do parliament buildings give physical form to norms and practices, to behaviours, rituals, identities and imaginaries? How are their spatial forms influenced by the political cultures they accommodate? What kinds of histories, politics and morphologies do the diverse European parliaments share, and how do their political trajectories intersect? This volume offers an eclectic exploration of the complex nexus between architecture and politics in Europe. Including contributions from architects who have designed or remodelled four parliament buildings in Europe, it provides the first comparative, multi-disciplinary study of parliament buildings across Europe and across history. Praise for Parliament Buildings 'In its totality, this is an invaluable book, both as a comprehensive review of the wider implications of architecture and building in culture and society, and as a specific resource in the understanding of one highly specialised, but profoundly significant building type.' Dean Hawkes, Cardiff University and University of Cambridge 'Symbols of history and of hope, theatres of struggle, cradles of consensus: parliamentary buildings, as these diverse essays show, both reflect our democracies and can help them function better.' David Anderson, House of Lords 'Parliament Buildings is a brilliant interdisciplinary exploration of a fascinating topic. Theoretically sophisticated, empirically rich and historically informed, it demonstrates the multiple ways in which politics and the built environment intersect, and sheds light on the symbolic and material practices central to contemporary representative politics.' Duncan Bell, University of Cambridge Anthropology 53304 Architectural structure & design. 196810 European history 302534 Politics and government 297483 Parliament 302535 Buildings 66571 Governance Politics Architecture Planning Political Science 166868 Anthropology Social sciences Europe Parliament buildings 302539 Europe Architecture and state 54084 Europe Public buildings 154870 Design and construction Political culture 152175 Europe Staiger, Uta 302536 Sternberg, Claudia 302537 Melvin, Jeremy 302538 lcc 27 NA4195 General P37 2023 304915 304915 0 0 lcc 0 0 4 4 33 2024-06-13 Amazon 93.98 0 General NA4195 P37 2023 91000000751446 2025-09-29 15:32:19 1 103.98 0000-00-00 27