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Paper Abstract: An analysis of how dominant socio-political groups throughout history have place rigidly defined controls on the uses of architectural space in order to promote their own values, ideologies, and beliefs. Impact on women and minorities. Paper Introduction: Socio-Political ModelIntroduction The uses of architecture are often directly related to the socio-political environments in which architecture is designed From Victorianera architecture that firmly communicated the domestic sphere as theprimary universe of the wife or female to slavery-era architecture whoseforeboding and forbidding manner established the dominance of whites overAfrican Americans socio-political ideologies are often conveyed througharchitecture One only need look at the design and communication conveyedby a slave quarters as opposed to a plantation house in the pre-Civil WarSouth to see this Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. However, the text is somewhat scrambled. We want to give you as much information as we possibly can about our papers and essays, but we cannot give them away for free. In the text below you will find that while disordered, many of the phrases are essentially intact. From this text you will be able to get a solid sense of the writing style, the concepts addressed, and the sources used in the research paper. One only need look at the design and communication conveyedby a slave quarters as opposed to a plantation house in the pre-Civil WarSouth to see this is true.Body When space is used by architects, there is often a strict ideologyor values that are to be communicated by the use of such space. 262) argues, "...the modernroom comes into being only as a consequence of the invention of thecorridor in the seventeenth century; its privacies have little enough to dowith those indifferent sleeping spaces that a person used to negotiatethrough a rat's nest of other rooms and stepping over sleeping bodies."Conclusion In conclusion, one can see how different socio-political models andgroups throughout history have defined the use of architectural space in arigid manner in order to convey the values, ideologies, and principles mostcherished and exhibited by these dominant socio-political groups. Leach (p.142) maintains that there are three levels that apply to a strict order forinterpreting the use of space, "...some at a first level, the level ofaffective, bodily, lived experience, the level of the spoken word; some ata second level, that of the perceived, of socio-political signification;and some at a third level, the level of the conceived." The socio-political order often marginalizes the rights of women or minorities indifferent eras, and its use of space is meant to reaffirm suchmarginalization by promoting the values of the dominant socio-politicalgroups and their values in the use of architectural space. Even when the useof architectural space or innovation is not related to oppression of socio-political groups, the values of such groups, such as it being immodest tohave to pass by sleeping bodies to get to one's private quarters, asexhibited by architectural space. Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory. As languageevolves and individual rights for women, so, too, maintained Leach (p.262), notions and communications of architecture change. The way that language enables control or domination over others insociety is evidenced in patriarchy and the domination of males overfemales. From Victorianera architecture that firmly communicated the domestic sphere as theprimary universe of the wife or female to slavery-era architecture whoseforeboding and forbidding manner established the dominance of whites overAfrican Americans, socio-political ideologies are often conveyed througharchitecture. Work CitedLeach, Neil, (Ed.). Socio-Political ModelIntroduction The uses of architecture are often directly related to the socio-political environments in which architecture is designed. As Leach (p. However, the language and words used to evolve this dominationare ones that are transcribed into the form, purpose, and style ofarchitecture in a given era, from the Victorian domestic sphere to thewoman's house movement founded by the Beecher and Stowe. London: Routledge, 1997. If this paper is not what you are looking for, you can search again: Search for: or Click here to request an essay written just for you.

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