Has there been any significant study of what you might call “architectural recoding” where buildings are repurposed in a new way for a new political-cultural environment with little to no physical modification or aging? Like Hagia Sofia: church —> mosque —> museum?
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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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Do you want to tweet about mansions more
@vgr? I don't think I've ever seen you mention a mansion in a tweet beforeThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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