The American Statehouse: Interpreting Democracy's Temples
The American Statehouse: Interpreting Democracy's Temples
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美国州议会：解读民主的殿堂
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2000
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C. Goodsell
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C. Goodsell
“美国州议会大厦”考察了所有五十个州议会大厦中建筑和政治的相互作用。通过对建筑内外的仔细分析和照片，古德塞尔展示了建筑元素是如何体现政治价值观和思想的；影响政客、说客和新闻媒体的行为；这两件事都让公民感到敬畏和团结。他的结论是，州议会大厦的设计是对如何民主地实践政治的有意表达。美国的州议会大厦被称为“州府”，因为它在历史上被认为是所有州政府的中心和所在地。作为一种建筑类型，它出现于19世纪初，并在20世纪初开花结果。作为极少数纯粹的美国建筑形式之一，州议会大厦不仅包围而且象征着美国在州一级的民主。政府的三个分支机构，更不用说最初的国家官僚机构，都在一个屋檐下，这意味着三权分立的原则必须在近距离内“制定”出来，往往是以暴露的方式。在州议会中还形成了一种独特的政治风格，它混合了丰富多彩的领导、不同的党派关系、两院制反对、审议辩论、内部游说、不受限制的报道、官僚主义的增长和民粹主义的激进主义。所有这些因素都影响了州政府大楼的建筑形式，并受到州政府大楼的影响。在建筑研究和政治科学的联系，这本书是关于建筑和政治在美国的州议会大厦的相互作用。古德塞尔提出了他所谓的建筑的社会解释。为此，他使用了三个概念框架：一个致力于寻找建筑中嵌入的政治价值或思想，第二个关注建筑对当代政治行为的影响，第三个寻求评估建筑对社会的更大印象。古德塞尔总结道，州议会一方面象征着庄严的州政府权威，另一方面象征着自由的代议制政府。因此，美国的州议会不仅是一座寺庙，而且是一座民主的寺庙。”
"The American Statehouse" examines the interplay of architecture and politics in all fifty state capitols. Using both careful analysis and photographs of exteriors and interiors, Goodsell demonstrates how the architectural elements embody political values and ideas; influence how politicians, lobbyists, and the news media behave; and both awe and unite the citizenry. He concludes that a statehouse's design is an intentional expression of how to practice politics democratically. The American state capitol is a "statehouse" in that it was historically conceived as the center and home of all of state government. As a building type, it emerged in the early nineteenth century and flowered in the early twentieth. One of the very few purely American architectural forms, the statehouse not only encloses but also symbolizes American democracy at the state level. That all three branches of government, not to mention the state bureaucracy initially, were housed under one roof meant that the doctrine of the separation of powers had to be "worked out" in close quarters, often in revealing ways. What also evolved in the statehouse was a distinct style of politics that mixed colorful leadership, varied partisanship, bicameral opposition, deliberative debate, insider lobbying, uninhibited reporting, bureaucratic growth, and populist activism. All of these elements both affected and were acted upon by the built form the statehouse of state government. At the nexus of architectural studies and political science, this book is about the interaction of architecture and politics in America's state capitols. Goodsell offers what he calls a social interpretation of architecture. Toward this end, he utilizes three conceptual frameworks: one devoted to seeking political values or ideas embedded within the buildings, a second concerned with the effects of the buildings on contemporary political behavior, and a third seeking to appraise larger impressions the buildings make on society. Goodsell concludes that the statehouse enshrines both majestic state authority on the one hand and liberal representative government on the other. The American statehouse, then, is not just a temple but a temple of democracy."