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Destruction and Reconstruction: Architecture and a Longing for the Past
The landscape wrought by the mechanistic slaughter of the First World War has often been described as ‘lunar’: pockmarked by craters, scarred by erratically zig-zagging trenches, devoid of life – devoid even of the possibility of life. The only difference between … Continue reading
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Tagged Aesthetics, Architecture, Dorchester, Dorset, First World War, Nostalgia, Poundbury, Reconstruction, Regression, Somme, Ypres
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Palaces & Workhouses 