Projects
Replicas
Replica architectures employ selective ideas of the past to construct the image of states, cultures, organizations or powerful individuals in the present, often operating in service of radically conservative ideologies. Promoted through the rhetoric of reconstruction, replica projects are seldom 'literal' reconstructions. Rather, they involve the tendentious reclamation of historic architectural or urban forms to reinforce particular national or cultural identity narratives, however counterfactual their historical veracity. The idea of Replicas will be the subject of a session at the SAH conference in Chicago in 2015 and then an edited book.
ARC People: Adam Shar and Zeynep Kezer
Key Collaborators: Society of Architectural Historians Conference, Chicago, 2015