Word: historicism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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But even buildings recognized as "historic," by any definition, are often destroyed out of sheer indifference. The list of lost buildings and their memories compiled by the National Trust is depressingly long. One example in particular makes me cringe, a description in Forgotten Architecture of a firefighting exercise in Annandale...
Unlike the loss of a team or ancient coins, the loss of socially focal and artistically valuable architecture is noted in passing, accepted after the fact as inevitable and necessary. America's Forgotten Architecture, written collectively by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, aims to wake our dormant awareness of...
The book forces you to look around and see that yes, these things are forgotten. The age of throwaway containers has relegated the containers of work, worship, play, the family and the community to no-deposit, no-return status. Unless a building is consecrated "historic" by some authority, no one...
CHALLENGING COMMON ASSUMPTIONS of what a "historic building" is, America's Forgotten Architecture attacks stereotypes of history and architecture. Both, the authors realize, need to be seen not as the works of individuals, but as processes that acquire meaning only in a greater context. History is not the creations of...
...Firetrucks surrounded an empty deteriorating house that had been repeatedly set afire and extinguished by fire fighters. Close up, one could see on each truck the seal of the city, beautifully painted, and on it a picture of Ossian Hall, a plantation house built in Annandale about 1783--a structure...