Description: Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Architectural Design Student Exhibition 2020.
Brief Atlas Political Bodies proposes to read architecture through two opposing scales, the individual and the community. Architecture is also, at the same time, the expression of both power and self-awareness. This can be seen most clearly in how architecture has signified and embodied ideal bodies over time. Ideal bodies have emerged throughout the histories of human culture to reflect a society’s values, which has in turn informed the scale, proportion, and materiality of architecture. Students from the