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 production; irreducible to its contexts and formative of the identities and agencies that seemingly bear on it as causes. Focusing on the particular sites where violence is inflicted and where its subjects and objects are articulated; the book traces the intersection of violence and architecture from socialist modernization; through ethnic and nationalist conflict; to postwar reconstruction.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Maybe a little dated and I had to go through the text multiple times (but as a french speaker I think that the language difficulBy GabrielWondeful book. Maybe a little dated and I had to go through the text multiple times (but as a french speaker I think that the language difficulty is added to the pretty "strong" content). Anyway. this book is a must have for those who want to UNDERSTAND the whys and whats of pattern making. Dont dream. this is not a pattern-making book. you wont be a patternmaker. drafter or cutter after reading it. but youll have much more than that : the beginning (or complement if you already are advanced in the field of PMaking...) of an illumination about why certains things are how they are and how they work. And isnt understanding the key to further success and mastery?
