The debate over the relationship between Architecture and Politics (or buildings with power) is long overdue. Primarily, it is politics that influences architecture, and consequently architecture is at the service of politics. Architects are an integral part of the power structure by providing services to those who materially model the model of cultural buildings that architects design. Numerous scholars have presented a large number of buildings and objects which are interpreted as typical examples of power representation, arguing that
the architecture produced under each political system reflects the values and ideology of the political regime (Ostwald, 2007: 9). The connection between political systems and architectural artifacts produced under their tutelage is most evident
in a more ideological and totalitarian regime, such as socialism or fascism, than in contemporary political systems where the ideological weight has either shifted towards economic goals, or is more hidden and identified less frequently in the artifacts produced.
