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1 week agoThe Ukrainian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale Presents a Parallel Between Vernacular and Emergency Architecture
We understand 'hardcore' in its original sense as a (vernacular) builder's word, which refers to the assorted bits of debris and clinker that are crunched together to form a building foundation. We appeal for an ethics-and politics-of rebuilding, which is rooted in the fragile, but unyielding, hardcore of the Ukrainian (and planetary) commons; and which makes manifest the structures of care, repair, solidarity-and resistance-that sustain it.
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