Designs of Destruction by Lucia Allais - 9780226840079

The University of Chicago Press

Designs of DestructionThe Making of Monuments in the Twentieth Century\nAuthor(s): Lucia Allais\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226840079, 978-0226840079\nSynopsis\nHow architectural monuments survived and historical preservation was reinvented during the destructions of the twentieth century.\n The twentieth century was highly destructive, but from its landscapes of ruins was born a new architectural type: the cultural monument. In the wake of World War I, an international movement arose which aimed to protect architectural monuments in large numbers, and regardless of style, hoping not only to keep them safe from future conflicts but also to make them worthy of protection from more quotidian forms of destruction. An evolving groupincluding architects, intellectuals, art historians, archaeologists, curators, and lawyersgrew out of the new diplomacy of the League of Nations. During and a.