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.
About the Journal Sign up to Publishing alerts Submit
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.
Start reading now. Search within Architecture_MPS using the Search Bar at the top of our page, view issues here and browse AMPS Special Issues here.
Latest Blog Posts
Beyond the Steel: Demilitarizing Borders Through Art
Posted by Uli Linke on 2026-04-01
For many, the word border evokes a singular image: a towering wall of steel or concrete slicing through a landscape. Yet these structures are far more than simple physical barriers. They are powerful geopolitical forms that broadcast a nation’s deepest phantasms about who belongs and who must be excluded, rendered voiceless, invisible, and lifeless. Fortified borders project the illusion of total [...]
Read More