Or feudal mansions —> hotels, government secrets labs, museums/historical sites
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Mansions are my use case. They signify feudalism as a default political implied context, but clearly mansions (unlike fortresses or palaces, which are adjacent) “mean” different things in different eras, but also clearly have a material continuity as an idea.
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Mansions are free-standing opulent (relative to the times) dwellings with significant private physical control of immediate context, with a set-back boundary, typically non-shared, and enough going on to constitute at least a tiny local economy. But their political meaning drifts
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@mcmansionhell@autoblography@sevensixfive@cityofsound ? ugh my people-I-follow-who-architecture is a very stereotypical list :( -
Go look up Stan Allen’s essay “Field Conditions,” it contains an extensive discussion of exactly that wrt the Mosque at Córdoba
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“How Buildings Learn” by Stewart Brand
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Not quite what I’m thinking of
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Somebody must have done a study on church buildings during communism in eastern europe. Not my specialty, though, only know „on this day“-like short journo pieces, e.g.https://www.dw.com/en/how-churches-in-the-soviet-union-were-desecrated-and-repurposed/g-19565103 …
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