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Author Archives: Darran Anderson
Dark tourism: questioning how we memorialise tragedy
The flourishing mainstream activity of touring sites of tragedy and death often trades respect for memory for profit
Monuments to men: ego and stature solidified in stone
Immense statues commemorating the power and hubris of tyrants cultivate the idea that masculinity equates to the undisputed singular rule of an autocrat
Arbiters of conscience: architectural jeremiads
In the censure of destruction and alienation wrought by architecture, jeremiads play a crucial role in upholding both aesthetics and humanity
Body of evidence: a history of Irish iconoclasm
Iconoclasm has played a significant role in Irish history but should not be a part of its future
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778)
The last of the Ancients and the first of the moderns, Piranesi’s legacy can be felt from the work of Lebbeus Woods and Alexander Brodsky to PoMo and Brutalism