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The National Park Service has published their environmental assessment report outlining options for Richard Netura’s 1961 Cyclorama Building at Gettysburg. Their recommended fate for the building: demolition. This comes after two decades of argument and a three year lawsuit between preserving the building in place and removing the building to rehabilitate the battlefield beneath it.
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Posted in RETHINKING PRESERVATION, THOUGHTS & WRITINGS Tagged demolition, mid-century modern, modernism, national park service, preservation, richard neutra
1 Comment As a part of of our ‘Rethinking Preservation’ project for Neutra’s Cyclorama in Gettysburg, we designed a graphic for our ‘Network’ scheme. The graphic has been used nationally by various organizations as rallying tool to gain supporters for the preservation of modern buildings.
Posted in IDENTITY, NEWS, RETHINKING PRESERVATION, SPECULATIONS Tagged bertrand goldberg, cyclorama, Gettysburg, modern preservation, paul rudolph, richard neutra
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Cities are dynamic and living things. Preserving a building in its initial state isn’t always the best solution. What if we considered the degrees of preservation between ALL and NOTHING?
What if we thought of preservation through the ideas of artist Gordon Matta-Clark?
What if we thought of preservation through the act of demolition?
What if we integrated a building into new development?
What if we expressed a building’s ideas and concepts through anatomical exhibition?
What if we re-inhabited a building by dissecting it?
What if we treated a building as public art?
What if we distribute remnants of a building to plazas and museums?
What if we move the building from its site?
Could we use degrees of preservation to educate?
Could we better heighten awareness of a building’s original value in an altered state?
Could we increase the perceived value of design in the public consciousness?
Could we preserve our cultural heritage while embracing our future?