(also an EH property....shown here..)What's also interesting is the way that EH vigorously applies its own historical (and insitutionally informed) logic to 'recreate' the past....a potent example of how 'taste' is equally complicit in historical narratives don't you think?....
Anyway, I can't wait for next week's programme - it's the turn of the 1960s Sheffield concrete high rise to be 'saved'....do you remember the debacle about the Smithson's 'Robin Hood Gardens' (built 1972) that the great and the good tried to get Listed?.....
.........I agree that as a building it is kind of sublime, but as the residents suggested, it's also rather a pain in the butt as an experiment in social engineering.........what do you think....Mark
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ReplyDeleteah yes, the 'old chestnut' of tradition..there is a connection between the requirement (and we should note it's a 'requirement' not a preference) that those working on historic buildings should use 'appropriate' methods...ie. they need to get up, as the cock crows, and walk to the building site, hand-hew their tiles/bricks/lintels, (preferably working in a hair-shirt) and etc etc...(and there's a material (excuse pun) logic in this, in that 'older' techniques do sit well in relation to how well these fit with the exisiting materials)...and the objectives of EH, in that they are part of the heritage culture itself, through William Morris and the SPAB etc...(but I'll end my rant)....Oh and it probably is something to do with the edit...not all, but some of it....(I doubt we'll get a job at EH anyway!)
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