Andrew Herscher
On his book Violence Taking Place: The Architecture of the Kosovo Conflict
Cover Interview of August 02, 2010
violence /
architecture /
aesthetics /
war /
human rights /
representation /
international criminal court /
kosovo /
yugoslavia /
serbia /
Editor’s note
Originally, this interview ran on the Rorotoko cover page under the headline
“On destruction as a kind of architecture-in-reverse.”
We highlighted two quotes.
On the first page:
“Architecture is not so much destroyed in order to destroy what it stands for, but rather to make architecture stand for something in the first place.”
On the second:
“The representation of targets as architecture and not as human beings allowed NATO to leave the human targets of its bombing campaign—both members of Serbian armed forces and civilians alike—unrepresented.”