While the construction of architecture has a place in architectural discourse, its destruction, generally seen as incompatible with the very idea of "culture," has been neglected in theoretical and historical discussion. Responding to this neglect, Herscher examines the case of the former Yugoslavia and in particular, Kosovo, where targeting architecture has been a prominent dimension of political violence. Rather than interpreting violence against architecture as a mere representation of "deeper" social, political, or ideological dynamics, Herscher reveals it to be a form of cultural...
While the construction of architecture has a place in architectural discourse, its destruction, generally seen as incompatible with the very idea of "...
While the construction of architecture has a place in architectural discourse, its destruction, generally seen as incompatible with the very idea of -culture,- has been neglected in theoretical and historical discussion. Responding to this neglect, Herscher examines the case of the former Yugoslavia and in particular, Kosovo, where targeting architecture has been a prominent dimension of political violence. Rather than interpreting violence against architecture as a mere representation of -deeper- social, political, or ideological dynamics, Herscher reveals it to be a form of cultural...
While the construction of architecture has a place in architectural discourse, its destruction, generally seen as incompatible with the very idea of -...
This book poses spatial violence as a constitutive dimension of architecture and its epistemologies, as well as a method for theoretical and historical inquiry intrinsic to architecture; and thereby offers an alternative to predominant readings of spatial violence as a topic, event, fact, or other empirical form that may be illustrated by architecture. Exploring histories of and through architecture at sites across the globe, the chapters in the book blur the purportedly distinctive borders between war and peace, framing violence as a form of social, political, and economic order rather...
This book poses spatial violence as a constitutive dimension of architecture and its epistemologies, as well as a method for theoretical and histor...
