Architecture, Space, and Emotions: Forging Connections between Government and Public

Architectural spaces are intimately connected to the staging of power and authority. The nature of both staging and of the built environment have changed over time, however. The revolutions of the late eighteenth century fundamentally reconfigured who was considered important enough to be taken into account when designing the built environment of power. Following the French Revolution, subjects increasingly became citizens, and politics became significantly more participatory. This chapter follows the effects of this change on the way that European governments envisioned the spatial encounters of politics and people, on the one hand, and how both sides experienced this encounter, on the other. It traces the crucial role that emotions and their regulations played in the emergence of these new spatial relations.