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June 05, 2013
Edgeland House
Edgeland House was built for an unnamed sci-fi writer and his family.
"It is not every day that you have discussion about Paul Virilio's Bunker Archeology with a client."
Bunker archaeology: "Writing in The Guardian, J.G. Ballard asserted that Hitler’s bunkers served as the predecessors for the Brutalist architecture which was to spread across Britain and the continent in the post-war period."
Similar to the concrete residential blocks produced by the European architectural vanguard of the 1950s and 60s, the blockhouses, “left behind by a race of warrior scientists obsessed with geometry and death,” were drained of all mystery and emotion, otherworldly structures reduced to barefaced pessimism. Walking along the beaches of Normandy, Ballard sees in the abandoned bunkers the last vestiges of modernism slowly receding beneath the sands.
Paul Virilio: Renowned urbanist, political theorist, and art critic.
During my youth, work on the European littoral forbade access to it; they were building a wall and I would not discover the ocean, in the Loire estuary, before the summer of ‘45.
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