Welcome to Architecture_MPS
The official journal of the international research organization, Architecture, Media, Politics, Society (AMPS). Architecture_MPS is a fully peer-reviewed, international, open access journal that addresses the growing interest in the social and political interpretation of the built environment, from a multidisciplinary perspective.
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Architecture_MPS (AMPS) focuses upon critical and original engagement with the built environment and explicitly welcomes interdisciplinary perspectives. Publishing one article per month AMPS seeks to explore an overlaid terrain in which the physical, material and the environmental are critically examined through the prisms offered by other fields. Publishing articles from planners, architects, urban designers, sociologists, artists, urban economists, and lawyers specialized in land rights, AMPS aims to address the relationship of these disciplines with the built environment.
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Nothing Rhymes with Orange
Posted by Philip Arneill on 2026-07-03
When explaining my research, it's not uncommon to have to go back an additional step and firstly define exactly for an audience what an ‘Orange Hall' is. In fact, even my phone struggles when I dictate my writing, consistently autocorrecting it to ‘orange hole’. To those familiar with the Northern Irish context, Orange Halls can be divisive architecture: contested spaces surrounded by an [...]
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