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H Blocks - Louise Purbrick

H Blocks

An Architecture of the Conflict in and about Northern Ireland

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
216 Seiten
2024
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-350-24006-3 (ISBN)
CHF 49,95 inkl. MwSt
Shortlisted for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion 2023

A place of incarceration and liberation, political debate and historical denial, the H Block cell units of Long Kesh/Maze prison in Northern Ireland housed members of both Republican and Loyalist military groups during ‘The Troubles’ and are now considered ‘icons’ of that conflict. The H Block’s dual status as an articulation of and resistance against power mean that the area is still one of the most contested sites of conflict in Europe.

Based on a long-standing site-specific investigation, and drawing on a range of sources from architectural plans to photographs of street protests, H Blocks explores the material relationship between the prison as a built articulation of power and its inhabitants, highlighting the ethical and political roles that architecture can play in situations of conflict. It also addresses the afterlife of such sites after the end of conflict and how they can adapt to the changing cultural meanings of their space.

The book demonstrates how the conflicted histories of the prison are configured in its design and destruction, and the inhabitation and attempted preservation of the site itself, revealing how its architecture is bound up with questions of power and resistance, embodiment and attachment, witnessing and remembering, the materiality of history and its commodification.

Louise Purbrick is Tutor in Design History, Royal College of Arts, UK.

List of Figures
Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Building the Blocks
2. Living in the Cells
3. The Global Witness and the Hunger Strike
4. Women Visitors: Waiting to Understand Prison Architecture
5. Erasure: The Last Murals and Final Performance of Long Kesh/Maze
6. On eBay: Who Owns the Keys of the H Blocks?

Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 40 bw illus
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Zeitgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Hilfswissenschaften
Technik Architektur
ISBN-10 1-350-24006-0 / 1350240060
ISBN-13 978-1-350-24006-3 / 9781350240063
Zustand Neuware
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