Redefining the Past: Revolutionary Architecture and the Conseil des Batiments Civils

O’Connell, Lauren M.

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“…Such a building programme was impossible to complete in a very short time span. Architects resorted to changing existing buildings (O'Connell 1995), and to do so they developed manuals which described certain building types as a specific material arrangement to achieve specific, and at the time, new 'functions' (the term rose to prominence only after the Second World War). Out of this building programme grew a more general urge to describe and formalise building 'types'.…”

Section: Setting the Scene: Making Society Durable With Buildingsmentioning

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From Prototyping to Allotyping

Guggenheim¹

2014

Journal of Cultural Economy

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The chapter analyses the invention and the form of the discourse on building conversion as one particular instance of redefining what a technology is and how it operates. I describe a shift from expert defined closure to lay based openness and tinkering as a shift from prototyping to allotyping: Since the early 1970s, change of use and building conversion have become a central and fashionable discourse among architects and architectural theorists. Before the 1970s, buildings were understood as technologies, as 'society made durable'. The notion of building type was central to link a building to a given use. A bank was a bank because architects applied existing templates, prototypes, to turn a building into a bank. In the 1970s, suddenly buildings became flexible -discursively, since building conversion always existed: 'Building type' no longer was a meaningful link between a building and its use. A bank should not stay a bank, but become a hotel, a theatre or a flat, in short: an allotype. The chapter elucidate this central shift in thinking about buildings and reflects on the special case of allotyping buildings and how it continues to vex thinking about buildings.

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Section: Setting the Scene: Making Society Durable With Buildingsmentioning

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From Prototyping to Allotyping

Guggenheim¹

2014

Journal of Cultural Economy

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“…257 In Sierra Leone, the disarmament process, with the help of the British, took place at a much faster pace. 258 These incidents highlight that negotiated settlements do not always secure peace for a fragile, failed state. This occurs because the agreements are not addressing the root issues.…”

Section: E Predicting Failure: Sierra Leone Has It Rightmentioning

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Moving from Impunity to Accountability in Post-War Liberia: Possibilities, Cautions, and Challenges

Scott¹

2005

Int. J. of Legal Inf.

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Liberia has become the quintessential example of an African failed state. Though Liberia's civil war is officially over, war criminals are free and some are even helping run the transitional government under the authority of Liberia's Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). This peace agreement calls for the consideration of a general amnesty for those involved in the Liberian civil war alongside the parceling of governmental functions among members of various rebel groups. The drafters of the agreement claim that this was the only viable solution for sustainable peace in Liberia. Meanwhile, Charles Taylor relaxes in Nigeria's resort city of Calabar.

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Revolutionary Time and Space

Kingston

2012

Bureaucrats and Bourgeois Society

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Redefining the Past: Revolutionary Architecture and the Conseil des Batiments Civils

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From Prototyping to Allotyping

From Prototyping to Allotyping

Moving from Impunity to Accountability in Post-War Liberia: Possibilities, Cautions, and Challenges

Revolutionary Time and Space

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