#fortress – @nickkahler on Tumblr

The bunker has become a myth, present and absent at the same time: present as an object of disgust instead of a transparent and open civilian architecture, absent insofar as the essence of the new fortress is elsewhere, underfoot, invisible from here on in. … The bunker is the protohistory of an age in which the power of a single weapon is so great that no distance can protect you from it any longer.

Paul Virilio, Bunker Archaeology, 1975

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The fortress had important psychological value, for it tended to unite the occupier and the occupied in the fear of being swept away; the fortress provided unity and identity where there was none.

R.G. Nobecourt in Paul Virilio, Bunker Archaeology, 1975

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Palace of Sargon II, Khorsabad, Iraq, c. 710 BCE / 1905 (via archimaps)

#palace #sargon ii #khorsabad #iraw #plan #drawing #archeology #architecture #history #space #fortress #wall #plaza #gate #court

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Art was always free of life, and its color never reflected the color of the flag which waved over the fortress of the City.

Leon Trotsky, Literature and Revolution, 1924

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Matthew Darmour-Paul, Fortress of Truth, 2015 (via drawingarch)

#matthew darmour-paul #fortress #truth #tower #photography #drawing #black and white #design #art #lighthouse #black

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Karam Al-Masri, Barricade Made of Buses Used as Protection from Snipers, Aleppo, Syria, 2015 (via polychroniadis)

Source: TIME

#karam al-masri #barricade #bus #protection #sniper #war #battle #tactic #baricade #resistance #architecture #photography #defense #design #fortress #art #sculpture #activism #ruin

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COMOCO, Renovation of the Castelo de Pombal, Pombal, Portugal, 2014 (via guerra)

#comoco #COMOCO #architecture #renovation #rehabilitation #castle #pombal #portugal #fort #stone #material #design #juxtaposition #concrete #steel #ruin #medieval #fortress

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Castelo de Pombal, Pombal, Portugal, 1155-1353

#castle #architecture #window #stair #door #threshold #stone #medieval #fort #fortress #pombal #portugal

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Castle of Petra, Tsikhisdziri, Georgia, c. 600 CE

#castle #architecture #ruin #tsikhisdziri #georgia #landscape #stone #fortress #peter #petra #history

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Fortress Arches in Kerch, Ukraine, c. 2000

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In ancient warfare, defense was not speeding up but slowing down. The preparation for war was the wall, the rampart, the fortress. And it was the fortress as permanent fortification that settled the city into permanence … the surrounding wall [of the city] is linked to the organization of war as the organization of space.

Paul Virilio, “The Space of War” in Pure War, 1988

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I have been interested in the ways in which architecture controls. Sure, it can be benign, but even if it’s a protective structure, like a fortress, there’s still something sinister. There [are] all kinds of wonderful dynamics in enclosure, in that it can offer at once a sense of protection and entrapment.

Kendall Buster, "Interview with Katie Geha," 2013