How can we think the political dimension of architecture when coming close to politics is perhaps the biggest curse in the church of architecture, especially in Flanders? In the background lies the big trauma of clientelism in building production in the 20th Century. Since the 1990‐ies a critical architecture culture has been emerged from the architectural field in Flanders, later embodied by institutions like the Flemish Government Architect and Flemish Architecture Institute. Depoliticization became the watchword and rightly so, it can be seen as one of the key moment for the international recognition of Flemish architecture today. Still the evacuation of politics from the field of architecture does not undo the political dimension of architecture. Pure architecture that claims to be free of politics might show itself as perhaps the most political of all. Also we should differentiate the political from everyday politics and acknowledge how architecture is always tainted by the antagonisms that constitute human existence. In the course we will study and discuss the political dimension of architecture in reference to international literature (Slavoj Zizek, Bruno Latour, Doina Petrescu, Keller Easterling and others) and a variety of architectural practices in Flanders today.