Text Ticker: Forts are architecture too
Good old BLDGBLOG has a post mourning the cancellation of a tour of American and European forts and uses the opportunity to pin up some nice photos of what you'd see.
I don't at all agree with the statement that "architects no longer design for war" – this might be true for, say, Zaha Hadid and Norman Foster, but it is in no way true for military spatialists employed on prototype base housing, prefab field shelters, or even secure urban embassy design
Who is designing today's forts?
In Mexico, recently, I saw a lovely army barracks built to watch over the Zapatistas in Ocosingo. It had a real idyllic feel to it, with rolling hills and Christmas decorations, but the best part was the view of the ancient Mayan fortress city of Tonina in the distance. [go!]
