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The term is a play on the "Oedipus complex" of psychoanalytic theory.While earlier use of the term elsewhere in the world has been suggested, the term was independently coined by Behn Cervantes [10] to criticise the construction of the Cultural Center of the Philippines during the buildup to the 1969 presidential election campaign, during which Imelda Marcos' husband Ferdinand Marcos was ...
The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Complex is considered the premier symbol of Imelda's edifice complex. [263] [262] It was designed by architect Leandro Locsin and was built on a reclaimed land along Roxas Boulevard in Manila and covered an area of about 21 hectares (52 acres).
The PICC building, along with other buildings in the Cultural Center of the Philippines complex, has been associated with what has been termed Imelda Marcos' "edifice complex," [8] which writer Gerard Lico defined as "obsession and compulsion to build edifices as a hallmark of greatness or as a signifier of national prosperity." [9]
The financial and human costs of constructing these buildings, in a time of widespread poverty and corruption, was seen as symptomatic of the First Lady's edifice complex, a charge Imelda has nevertheless welcomed in her later years. [8] [13] [14] CCP Complex from the air. The Marcos regime ended in 1986 through the peaceful People Power ...
Imelda Marcos, the former first lady of the Philippines who became notorious for the way she used her position to fund a lavish lifestyle, will be at the center of a new limited series that is ...
Imelda Marcos famously said she wanted the words “Here Lies Love” engraved on her tombstone. Good for her. Her many enemies would argue that the former first lady of the Philippines ...
The Philippine Heart Center was established through Presidential Decree No. 673 issued by president Ferdinand E. Marcos on February 14, 1975. [3] The building is identified with what is referred to as the Marcoses' "edifice complex," [9] [10] defined by architect Gerard Lico as "an obsession and compulsion to build edifices as a hallmark of greatness."
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine court found former first lady Imelda Marcos guilty of graft and ordered her arrest Friday in a rare conviction among many corruption cases that she plans ...