State Buildings in New Armenia and their Symbolic Roles

Sarhat Petrosyan, architect, urban-planner, urbanlab founder Source: http://hetq.am/arm/news/91267/nor-hayastani-petakan-shenqern-u-dranc-nshanayin-dery.html Հայերեն տեքստն հասանելի է այստեղ Today as we seem to be approaching the final stage of the formation of the new executive branch of government and the new parliamentary elections are not far behind, I think it is time to start a discussion of the arrangement of public administration buildings and their symbolic role in urban landscape, a topic which might be unimportant at first sight, but, in fact, from the point of formation of new political traditions and given long term perspectives, it becomes a cornerstone issue, in terms of viewing it as firm political positioning tool, as well as state property management tool on national level, and at the same time as the manager and carrier of content for civic value system. Back in 2000s, when Armenia was striving for the reputation of "the most organized" state