Abstract
Abstract Architecture has lent expression to imperial projects across history, both through the assertion of symbolic authority and in the mechanisms of its upkeep. Although architecture itself is an historically contingent term, buildings have played an enduring role in organizing imperial projects of all kinds and across a diverse geography, especially in those societies and cultures for which the city has been an important unit of social organization. This entry explores the relationship between architectural symbolism and architectural types as a significant relationship in the conceptualization of imperial architecture. It considers the archetypes of this relationship in the ancient world, as well as the model that Rome, in particular, served for subsequent European imperial projects. It suggests a relationship, played out in architectural terms, between architecture and religion, and architecture and nationalism, and concludes with reflections on the analogy architecture offers for understanding the endurance of architecture's role in the subtle imperialism of global capitalism.
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