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- Title
Architecture, Conversation Violence, Evidence.
- Authors
Weizman, Eyal; Herscher, Andrew
- Abstract
Architect Eyal Weizman and historian Andrew Herscher discuss their research on architecture as a target of political violence and the consequent interpretation(s) of architectural destruction in international law. The act of destruction fundamentally transforms the meaning of a building, and often architecture only acquires significance at the very moment of its destruction. Their discussion reveals the complexity of meaning surrounding architecture as both victim and witness, and challenges the too-frequent assumption that buildings only ever serve as static symbols of identity.
- Subjects
DEFACEMENT of architecture; POLITICAL violence; DESTRUCTION of cultural property; PROTECTION of cultural property (International law); NATIONALISM &; architecture; INTERNATIONAL Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991
- Publication
Future Anterior: Journal of Historic Preservation History Theory & Criticism, 2011, Vol 8, Issue 1, p110
- ISSN
1549-9715
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/fta.2011.0002