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Melbourne: The Destruction of Memory: Architecture at War
Esther Charlesworth and Robert Bevan talk about their recently published books:
THE DESTRUCTION OF MEMORY: ARCHITECTURE AT WAR
Robert Bevan
The levelling of buildings and cities has been an inevitable part of conducting hostilities over the centuries but there has always been another war against architecture going on the deliberate destruction of the cultural artefacts of an enemy people or nation as a means of dominating, terrorizing, dividing or eradicating it altogether. In The Destruction of Memory, Robert Bevan examines the politicized nature of such destruction, from the desecration of Jewish synagogues in the 1930s to the annihilation of Islamic heritage of Bosnia in the 1990s and beyond.
and
Architects Without Frontiers: War, Reconstruction, and Design Responsibility
Esther Charlesworth
From the targeted demolition of Mostars Stari-Most Bridge in 1993 to the physical and social havoc caused by the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami, the history of cities is often a history of destruction and reconstruction. But what political and aesthetic criteria should
guide us in the rebuilding of cities devastated by war and natural
calamities?
7:30pm Thursday, 17 August 2006 in RMIT venue 8.11.68
(Enter via Swanston St: Bldg 8, level 11, theatre 68 - to the right of the lifts)
for more information:
http://www.architecturephilosophy.rmit.edu.au/[/size]
THE DESTRUCTION OF MEMORY: ARCHITECTURE AT WAR
Robert Bevan
The levelling of buildings and cities has been an inevitable part of conducting hostilities over the centuries but there has always been another war against architecture going on the deliberate destruction of the cultural artefacts of an enemy people or nation as a means of dominating, terrorizing, dividing or eradicating it altogether. In The Destruction of Memory, Robert Bevan examines the politicized nature of such destruction, from the desecration of Jewish synagogues in the 1930s to the annihilation of Islamic heritage of Bosnia in the 1990s and beyond.
and
Architects Without Frontiers: War, Reconstruction, and Design Responsibility
Esther Charlesworth
From the targeted demolition of Mostars Stari-Most Bridge in 1993 to the physical and social havoc caused by the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami, the history of cities is often a history of destruction and reconstruction. But what political and aesthetic criteria should
guide us in the rebuilding of cities devastated by war and natural
calamities?
7:30pm Thursday, 17 August 2006 in RMIT venue 8.11.68
(Enter via Swanston St: Bldg 8, level 11, theatre 68 - to the right of the lifts)
for more information:
http://www.architecturephilosophy.rmit.edu.au/[/size]
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