Reification and Representation

Graham Cairns is the author and editor of multiple books and articles on architecture as both a form of visual culture and a socio-political construct. He has held positions at universities in Spain, the UK, Mexico, the Gambia, South Africa and the US. He has worked in architectural studios in London and Hong Kong and founded the performing arts organisation, Hybrid Artworks in the 1990s. He is currently Chair of Architecture at Miami University, Ohio, Honorary Senior Research Associate at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, and Director of the academic research organisation AMPS and its scholarly journal Architecture_MPS.

• Introduction Section 1: The United States 1. From Lincoln to Obama –The Recent History of Architecture as Political Imagery in the United States. Barack Obama 2008. 2. Visualizing sub-prime: the premeditation and financial collapse of the housing market. George W. Bush 2004. 3. Trump Tower: The Neoliberal Overflow of Political Architecture. Donald Trump 2016 Section 2: The United Kingdom 4. Parliament, Sovereignty and British Political Identity. David Cameron. 2010 5. Right to Buy - The Architectural Imagery of Home. Margaret Thatcher. 1979 6. New Labour and the Age of Socio-Urban Economics Tony Blair. 1997 Conclusion Bibliography