Bunker Archaeology
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (821 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1568980159 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 216 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-17 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
In Bunker Archeology, urbanist Paul Virilio turns his attentionand camerato the ominous yet strangely compelling German bunkers that lie abandoned along the coast of France. These ghostly reminders of destruction and oppression prompted Virilio to consider the nature of war and existence, in relation to both World War II and contemporary times. Out of print for almost a decade, we are thrilled to bring back one of our most requested hard-to-find titlesphilosopher and cultural theorist Paul Virilio's Bunker Archeology. In 1994 we published the first English-language translation of the classic French edition of 1975, which accompanied an exhibition of Virilio's photographs at the Centre Pompidou. Virilio discusses fortresses and military space in general as well as the bunkers themselves, including an examination of the role of Albert Speer, Hitler's architect, in the rise of the Third Reich.
W. Stotler said Solid Companion to Ballard. With an entertaining performance in his meandering academic/historical/philosophical approach, Virilio takes the reader on a journey across the physical and sociological implications of the bunker. This is not a straightforward guide--this is a collection of essays that intertwine Virilio's numerous observations about time, place, people, and the physicality of the bunker as object. If the interior/exterior spaces of J.G. Ballard interest you, this book is a good companion. It's worth mentioning that the book contains numerous photographs by the author that are near-haunting. Good. "Great Tour Guide" according to drsplash. Mr. Virillio has put together a great book on World War Two Bunkers of the Atlantic Wall. He gives illustrations on how the 'bunker' was developed, and then proceeds to hunt down and photograph a number of them. Of course at the end he divulges the fate of some, but the Nazi's had built these things to last a thousand years.. "Not written by an archaeologist" according to Amazon Customer. This book is not about archaeology. It is a rambling essay written by an architect. The diagrams are few in number and do not have scales nor north arrows. The photographs are equally bereft of the usual accoutrements of even basic archaeological photography and the locations are very vague. I feel somewhat cheated by the title
The book's black-and-white photographs are poignant illustrations of his larger points. By refusing to recoil in horror from these ironic monuments, or even simply to ignore them as so many other shell-shocked by the experience of war had done, Virilio admirably shows how even the most challenging forms of architecture are open to historical debate and aesthetic interpretation. Its metaphor becomes the means to conceptually objectify architecture to a minimalist end, allowing the architect to play on the theme of the monolith and its aftermath, the fractal." --The Architect's Newspaper . The book had taken on the feel of something like an urban legendsomething of which many had heard