page_title: Edifice complex
hierarchical_section_title: Edifice complex
caption_attribution_description: In the 1970's, Gen. Marcos and his wife commissioned a palace built entirely out of coconut and local materials. They invited the Pope to come stay and dedicate it, but he felt the abode was too ornate and stayed instead with the Archbishop. The Marcos' then invited Brooke Shields, who gladly accepted their invitation
context_page_description: In the Philippines, the term "edifice complex" was coined in the 1970s to describe Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos' practice of using publicly funded construction projects as political and election propaganda.
  Built with a Brutalist architectural style, perhaps to emphasize their grandiose character, these construction projects were funded by foreign loans, allowing the incumbent Marcos administration to create an impression of progress, but instead put the Philippines through a series of debt crises.The first of the crises occurred in 1970, which many economic historians consider to have triggered the socioeconomic unrest which later led Marcos to impose martial law in 1972.
context_section_description: In the Philippines, the term "edifice complex" was coined in the 1970s to describe Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos' practice of using publicly funded construction projects as political and election propaganda.
  Built with a Brutalist architectural style, perhaps to emphasize their grandiose character, these construction projects were funded by foreign loans, allowing the incumbent Marcos administration to create an impression of progress, but instead put the Philippines through a series of debt crises.The first of  the crises occurred in 1970,  which many economic historians consider to have triggered the socioeconomic unrest which later led Marcos to impose martial law in 1972.
caption: The Coconut Palace is one of the edifices commonly cited as an example of the Marcos dictatorship's edifice complex.
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