http://htcexperiments.org/2009/09/21/reconstruction-as-agitation/ Experimental practices in architectural history, theory, and criticism -- organized by David Gissen Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:44:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://htcexperiments.org/2009/09/21/reconstruction-as-agitation/#comment-254 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:10:31 +0000 http://htcexperiments.org/?p=1527#comment-254 i’m researching on a horizontal vs vertical spaces in architecture. Can anyone give me a reference on this topic? i appreciate your help..

]]> http://htcexperiments.org/2009/09/21/reconstruction-as-agitation/#comment-221 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:09:40 +0000 http://htcexperiments.org/?p=1527#comment-221 Thanks for visiting. And yes, that’s a very good point about Knossos. I just read a review (by Mary Beard) in the New York Review of Books ton a new book about the Minoan reconstructions. Have you seen it? her conclusion was a bit of a head scratcher; but I think she was arguing for acknowledgment of the artifice of reconstructions; and she further argues how this artifice may serve present artistic problems.

]]> http://htcexperiments.org/2009/09/21/reconstruction-as-agitation/#comment-220 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:13:32 +0000 http://htcexperiments.org/?p=1527#comment-220 it’s also interesting to consider sites where the physical reconstruction has been agitative – or at least agitating. sir arthur evans’s reconstructions at knossos (1904-1930, much of it in reinforced concrete) are deeply problematic, because they were constructed in situ according to evans’s own sometimes dubious interpretations, and the reconstructions cannot be distinguished from the ‘original’ remains with very much certainty. his reconstructions were as much a kind of utopianism as historical visualisation.

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