ABSTRACT
Architecture and Armed Conflict is the first multi-authored scholarly book to address this theme from a comparative, interdisciplinary perspective. By bringing together specialists from a range of relevant fields, and with knowledge of case studies across time and space, it provides the first synthetic body of research on the complex, multifaceted subject of architectural destruction in the context of conflict.
The book addresses several specific research questions:
- How has the destruction of buildings and landscapes figured in recent historical conflicts, and how have people and states responded to it?
- How has the destruction of architecture been represented in different historical periods, and to what ends?
- What are the relationships between the destruction of architecture and the destruction of art, particularly iconoclasm?
- If architectural destruction is a salient feature of many armed conflicts, how does it feature in post-conflict environments?
- What are the relationships between architectural destruction and processes of restoration, recreation or replacement?
Considering multiple conflicts, multiple time periods, and multiple locations allows this international cohort of authors to provide an essential primer for this crucial topic.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|33 pages
Architectural destruction in contemporary conflicts
part 2|44 pages
Representing and replicating architectural destruction in ancient, early modern, and modern contexts
chapter 3|13 pages
‘I Burnt, Razed (and) Destroyed Those Cities'
chapter 4|14 pages
Remaking the Bastille
part 3|42 pages
Iconoclasm and architectural destruction
chapter 7|13 pages
Iconoclasm and Resistance
part 4|35 pages
Future destruction: The fate of architecture in post-conflict environments
part 5|47 pages
From destruction to reconstruction